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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... initial trochee which is made to coincide with an active verb by comparing one of Eliot's passages with the original to which it alludes . Goldsmith's When lovely woman stoops to folly , And finds too late that men betray remains within ...
... initial trochee which is made to coincide with an active verb by comparing one of Eliot's passages with the original to which it alludes . Goldsmith's When lovely woman stoops to folly , And finds too late that men betray remains within ...
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Paul Fussell. initial trochee , we often get a strong reinforcement of an effect of sudden quiet , as in Wordsworth's ... initial trochee when it coincides with different syntactical elements . The initial verbal trochee of line 3 ( Look ...
Paul Fussell. initial trochee , we often get a strong reinforcement of an effect of sudden quiet , as in Wordsworth's ... initial trochee when it coincides with different syntactical elements . The initial verbal trochee of line 3 ( Look ...
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... initial trochee , as in this graffito from a U.S. Army latrine : Soldiers who wish to be a hero Are practically zero . But those who wish to be civilians , Jésus , they run into millions . In medial positions trochaic substitution is ...
... initial trochee , as in this graffito from a U.S. Army latrine : Soldiers who wish to be a hero Are practically zero . But those who wish to be civilians , Jésus , they run into millions . In medial positions trochaic substitution 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