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 96
... poet who accomplishes such lines is a wholly different poet from the one who composed " O Captain !, " and it is metrical analysis that helps us perceive the difference . As we have seen , triple meters , as in " Annabel Lee , ” and ...
... poet who accomplishes such lines is a wholly different poet from the one who composed " O Captain !, " and it is metrical analysis that helps us perceive the difference . As we have seen , triple meters , as in " Annabel Lee , ” and ...
Page 98
... poet creates whole poems rather than the elements of poems : it is not his work to present " beautiful rhythms " but beautiful - that is , wholly coherent - poems ( sometimes made out of very ugly subject matter ) in which the rhythms ...
... poet creates whole poems rather than the elements of poems : it is not his work to present " beautiful rhythms " but beautiful - that is , wholly coherent - poems ( sometimes made out of very ugly subject matter ) in which the rhythms ...
Page 149
... poet toward certain fixed forms and away from others . Knowing what the very form implies in and of itself , regardless of what is done with it , is one of the poet's guides . We have already seen that the eighteenth - century poet ...
... poet toward certain fixed forms and away from others . Knowing what the very form implies in and of itself , regardless of what is done with it , is one of the poet's guides . We have already seen that the eighteenth - century poet ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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