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 72
... once more , but the gradual decay of classical learning and enthusiasm — and the increasing association of classical learning with mere gentility — practically guaranteed a tiny and ineffective audience for such Alexandrian pursuits ...
... once more , but the gradual decay of classical learning and enthusiasm — and the increasing association of classical learning with mere gentility — practically guaranteed a tiny and ineffective audience for such Alexandrian pursuits ...
Page 111
... once , or we are abused only to be disabused : irony is the result . A similar sort of irony results from the rhyming of time and rhyme - or actually of no loss of time with ' sculpture ' of rhyme . The sound similarity implies a ...
... once , or we are abused only to be disabused : irony is the result . A similar sort of irony results from the rhyming of time and rhyme - or actually of no loss of time with ' sculpture ' of rhyme . The sound similarity implies a ...
Page 171
... once more alas Then let the darkling drops Wept in a decent year along The golden slopes elude for A moment or so his horribly Steady pouring hand and run Into sparkling glasses still Unshattered yes and undimmed . The trouble here is ...
... once more alas Then let the darkling drops Wept in a decent year along The golden slopes elude for A moment or so his horribly Steady pouring hand and run Into sparkling glasses still Unshattered yes and undimmed . The trouble here 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