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 4
... pattern , than of a conscious exposition of ideas . " Which is to say that regardless of the amount and quality of intellectual and emotional analysis that precedes poetic com- position , in the moment of composition itself the poet is ...
... pattern , than of a conscious exposition of ideas . " Which is to say that regardless of the amount and quality of intellectual and emotional analysis that precedes poetic com- position , in the moment of composition itself the poet is ...
Page 5
... pattern so excite us ? ' and fail to realize that the pattern itself is a vast cyclic agitation spreading all over the body , a tide of excitement pouring through the channels of the mind . " Coleridge may have meant something similar ...
... pattern so excite us ? ' and fail to realize that the pattern itself is a vast cyclic agitation spreading all over the body , a tide of excitement pouring through the channels of the mind . " Coleridge may have meant something similar ...
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... pattern which works on the reader and is recognized by him , no matter how unconsciously or irrationally , to constitute a significant abstract repetitive frame ; we do not mean an idiosyncratic pattern - the mere number of syllables ...
... pattern which works on the reader and is recognized by him , no matter how unconsciously or irrationally , to constitute a significant abstract repetitive frame ; we do not mean an idiosyncratic pattern - the mere number of syllables ...
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