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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... caesura , or extrametrical pause , within the lines . The caesura here , posi- tioned after the fourth syllable , near the middle of the line , is called a medial caesura . If it should occur near the beginning of the line , it is ...
... caesura , or extrametrical pause , within the lines . The caesura here , posi- tioned after the fourth syllable , near the middle of the line , is called a medial caesura . If it should occur near the beginning of the line , it is ...
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... medial caesura . Counterpoint or syncopation is achieved by occasional " rests " and the occasional omission of one of the four stressed syllables , especially in the second hemistich . The following passage from Beowulf ( lines 4-7 ) ...
... medial caesura . Counterpoint or syncopation is achieved by occasional " rests " and the occasional omission of one of the four stressed syllables , especially in the second hemistich . The following passage from Beowulf ( lines 4-7 ) ...
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... medial caesura are char- acteristics which are as strong as its four stresses : Modern English poetry has had no difficulty in casting off these other equally powerful characteristics of Old English verse . Whatever the degree to which ...
... medial caesura are char- acteristics which are as strong as its four stresses : Modern English poetry has had no difficulty in casting off these other equally powerful characteristics of Old English verse . Whatever the degree to which ...
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