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 23
... occur near the beginning of the line , it is called an initial caesura ; if near the end of the line , terminal ... occurs with great regularity in the The Technique of Scansion 23.
... occur near the beginning of the line , it is called an initial caesura ; if near the end of the line , terminal ... occurs with great regularity in the The Technique of Scansion 23.
Page 50
... occur initially : even in lines so boldly run - on as these , an initial substitution has the effect of occurring after a pause - the pause which the eye makes in moving from the end of one line to the beginning of the next . Like a ...
... occur initially : even in lines so boldly run - on as these , an initial substitution has the effect of occurring after a pause - the pause which the eye makes in moving from the end of one line to the beginning of the next . Like a ...
Page 165
... occur in time , whether athletic contests , seductions , or sentences . The principle is that the middle of the ... occur at the end and that stress inversion , a much less emphatic phenomenon , will occur most often at the beginning ...
... occur in time , whether athletic contests , seductions , or sentences . The principle is that the middle of the ... occur at the end and that stress inversion , a much less emphatic phenomenon , will occur most often at the beginning ...
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