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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... permission of Random House , Inc. and Faber and Faber , Ltd. George Barker , " Pacific Sonnet vii " from Collected Poems by George Barker . By permission of Faber and Faber , Ltd. Robert Bridges , " Cheddar Pinks , ” “ I Praise the ...
... permission of Random House , Inc. and Faber and Faber , Ltd. George Barker , " Pacific Sonnet vii " from Collected Poems by George Barker . By permission of Faber and Faber , Ltd. Robert Bridges , " Cheddar Pinks , ” “ I Praise the ...
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... permission of Curtis Brown , Ltd. Daniel Halpern , " Street Fire " from Street Fire by Daniel Halpern . Copyright Daniel Halpern , 1975. By permission of The Viking Press . John Hollander , " For a Thirtieth Birthday , with a Bottle of ...
... permission of Curtis Brown , Ltd. Daniel Halpern , " Street Fire " from Street Fire by Daniel Halpern . Copyright Daniel Halpern , 1975. By permission of The Viking Press . John Hollander , " For a Thirtieth Birthday , with a Bottle of ...
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... permission of New Directions and Faber and Faber , Ltd. Henry Reed , " Lessons of the War : Naming of Parts " from A Map of Verona . By permission of Jonathan Cape Ltd. Theodore Roethke , " Elegy for Jane " from The Collected Poems of ...
... permission of New Directions and Faber and Faber , Ltd. Henry Reed , " Lessons of the War : Naming of Parts " from A Map of Verona . By permission of Jonathan Cape Ltd. Theodore Roethke , " Elegy for Jane " from The Collected Poems of ...
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