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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... heroic or elegiac quatrain . It is sometimes called heroic because of its association with noble subjects during the Restoration . Dryden's " Annus Mirabilis " provides good examples of one sort of materials that most readers will ...
... heroic or elegiac quatrain . It is sometimes called heroic because of its association with noble subjects during the Restoration . Dryden's " Annus Mirabilis " provides good examples of one sort of materials that most readers will ...
Page 145
... heroic quatrain and one and one - half heroic couplets . It is associated with the narration of high and noble matters . Chaucer used it in " Troilus and Criseyde , " " The Parle- ment of Foules , " " The Clerk's Tale , " and " The Man ...
... heroic quatrain and one and one - half heroic couplets . It is associated with the narration of high and noble matters . Chaucer used it in " Troilus and Criseyde , " " The Parle- ment of Foules , " " The Clerk's Tale , " and " The Man ...
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... heroic which swells and swells until it bursts into the mock - heroic . The stanza is an appropriate vehicle for a poem which , as Byron said , is " meant to be a little quietly facetious upon everything . " The very rhyme scheme ...
... heroic which swells and swells until it bursts into the mock - heroic . The stanza is an appropriate vehicle for a poem which , as Byron said , is " meant to be a little quietly facetious upon everything . " The very rhyme scheme ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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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