Poetic Meter and Poetic Form"This book might be required reading for all students of poetry because it makes wonderfully clear the relationship of metrics to the formal achievement of meaning ... Fussell's command of his subject and his never-failing common sense will guarantee ... enrichment for anyone who takes the time to read this book."--Frank Lentricchia, Jr., PoetryDonated by Prabu Vasan. |
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Page 13
... hand , William Cowper , like Longfellow in " Evangeline , " unwittingly allows the whim- sical associations of triple meter to work against him : My fugitive years are all hasting away , And I must ere long lie as lowly as they , With a ...
... hand , William Cowper , like Longfellow in " Evangeline , " unwittingly allows the whim- sical associations of triple meter to work against him : My fugitive years are all hasting away , And I must ere long lie as lowly as they , With a ...
Page 25
... hands and sing , and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress . • ( Yeats , " Sailing to Byzantium " ) From ... hand , the practice of T. S. Eliot in " Journey of the Magi . " Here the caesuras are unexpectedly varied : There ...
... hands and sing , and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress . • ( Yeats , " Sailing to Byzantium " ) From ... hand , the practice of T. S. Eliot in " Journey of the Magi . " Here the caesuras are unexpectedly varied : There ...
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... hands at the altar · The connoisseur peers along the exhibition - gallery with half - shut eyes bent sideways , As the deck - hands make fast the steamboat the plank is thrown for the shore - going passengers . • And then one of ...
... hands at the altar · The connoisseur peers along the exhibition - gallery with half - shut eyes bent sideways , As the deck - hands make fast the steamboat the plank is thrown for the shore - going passengers . • And then one of ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
Copyright | |
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accentual accentual-syllabic anapestic beginning blank verse caesura CALIFORNIA/SANTA CRUZ century classical conventions Copyright critical CRUZ The University device effect elements emotional emphasis English poetry enjambment Essay example experience expressive Faber feet fixed forms foot formal free verse free-verse poem Frost heroic couplet iambic pentameter illusion imply initial trochee kind language logical meter metrical variations metrist modern musical nature number of syllables octave Old English organization pattern perhaps permission Petrarchan sonnet poet poet's Pope principle prose prosodic pyrrhic quatrain reader regularity reinforce rhetorical rhyme scheme rhythmical SANTA CRUZ scansion seems sense sestet shape Song spondaic spondaic substitution spondee sprung rhythm stanza stanzaic form stichic stressed syllables strophic structure suggest technical technique tends tercet terminal trochee tetrameter couplets texture thing Thom Gunn thou tion traditional trochaic trochaic substitution trochee turn University Library UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/SANTA unstressed versification W. H. Auden white space Whitman's William words Yeats