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 34
... practice than any we have seen so far , for it increases the syllabic length of the line and thus effaces one of the norms of predictability . Consider Yeats's variations here : Ónce out / of ná / tŭre I / shåll né / věr táke / Mỹ bó ...
... practice than any we have seen so far , for it increases the syllabic length of the line and thus effaces one of the norms of predictability . Consider Yeats's variations here : Ónce out / of ná / tŭre I / shåll né / věr táke / Mỹ bó ...
Page 69
... practice of such late seventeenth - century masters of the closed heroic couplet as Den- ham and Waller . In Paradise Lost Milton adheres quite con- sciously to a fixed decasyllabic limitation . The end of the Renais- sance is thus ...
... practice of such late seventeenth - century masters of the closed heroic couplet as Den- ham and Waller . In Paradise Lost Milton adheres quite con- sciously to a fixed decasyllabic limitation . The end of the Renais- sance is thus ...
Page 96
... practice in the ode " To Fancy " indicates : • Then guide me from this horrid scene To high - arched walks and alleys green , Where lovely Laura walks , to shun The fervours of the mid - day sun ; The pangs of absence , O remove , For ...
... practice in the ode " To Fancy " indicates : • Then guide me from this horrid scene To high - arched walks and alleys green , Where lovely Laura walks , to shun The fervours of the mid - day sun ; The pangs of absence , O remove , For ...
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