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 111
... implies a sharpness in both the cutting tool and the intelligence that commands it . The shape of a figure cut in alabaster ... imply we can find examples in all periods of English poetry . We can find examples in our most instinctive ...
... implies a sharpness in both the cutting tool and the intelligence that commands it . The shape of a figure cut in alabaster ... imply we can find examples in all periods of English poetry . We can find examples in our most instinctive ...
Page 131
... imply something special about the materials enclosed in it . It seems to imply a distinct isolation of those materials from related things , a vigorous en- closure of them into a compact and momentarily self - sufficient little world of ...
... imply something special about the materials enclosed in it . It seems to imply a distinct isolation of those materials from related things , a vigorous en- closure of them into a compact and momentarily self - sufficient little world of ...
Page 152
... imply an attitude toward order and reason and the predictable and the recurrent which today he probably will not want his poem to imply . But the other horn of the dilemma is equally painful . Poetry is form , and permanent poetry is ...
... imply an attitude toward order and reason and the predictable and the recurrent which today he probably will not want his poem to imply . But the other horn of the dilemma is equally painful . Poetry is form , and permanent poetry is ...
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