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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Paul Fussell. 3 Metrical Variations Meter probably began as a mere mnemonic device , a way of helping bards and scholars memorize their epics and annals and genealogies , their medical prescriptions , legal codes , and recipes , before ...
Paul Fussell. 3 Metrical Variations Meter probably began as a mere mnemonic device , a way of helping bards and scholars memorize their epics and annals and genealogies , their medical prescriptions , legal codes , and recipes , before ...
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... metrical variations . Once a metrical pattern has been implied in a poem , we can say that variations in the rhythm occur through the introduction of substitute feet which here and there replace certain of the base feet . Such a way of ...
... metrical variations . Once a metrical pattern has been implied in a poem , we can say that variations in the rhythm occur through the introduction of substitute feet which here and there replace certain of the base feet . Such a way of ...
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... metrical variations . As Joseph Malof has said , " The monotonously regular rhythms of the mid - sixteenth century were prerequisite to [ the development of a feel for metrical variations ] because they offered for the first time , in ...
... metrical variations . As Joseph Malof has said , " The monotonously regular rhythms of the mid - sixteenth century were prerequisite to [ the development of a feel for metrical variations ] because they offered for the first time , in ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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