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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... poet has not been able to wish away . In Bridges's " Cheddar Pinks , " for example , the poet's design of writing alter- nating five- and six - syllable lines with stress used nonstructurally has been frustrated by the English language ...
... poet has not been able to wish away . In Bridges's " Cheddar Pinks , " for example , the poet's design of writing alter- nating five- and six - syllable lines with stress used nonstructurally has been frustrated by the English language ...
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... Poetic forms are like that : they tend to say things even if words are not at the moment fitted to their patterns . As Louis MacNeice has said , " In any poet's poem the shape is half the meaning . " 8 The English Stanzas In thinking ...
... Poetic forms are like that : they tend to say things even if words are not at the moment fitted to their patterns . As Louis MacNeice has said , " In any poet's poem the shape is half the meaning . " 8 The English Stanzas In thinking ...
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... poet's posture toward received poetic forms . What it is has been suggested by J. V. Cunningham in " The Problem of Form . " The poet's attitude toward fixed metrical and stanzaic forms , Cunningham reminds us , reflects his general ...
... poet's posture toward received poetic forms . What it is has been suggested by J. V. Cunningham in " The Problem of Form . " The poet's attitude toward fixed metrical and stanzaic forms , Cunningham reminds us , reflects his general ...
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