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 33
... pyrrhic in the third position ; line 2 a pyrrhic in the third ; line 3 a spondaic ( or perhaps trochaic ) substitution in the first position ; and line 4 a pyrrhic in the third . Here the sub- stitutions serve both to relieve the ...
... pyrrhic in the third position ; line 2 a pyrrhic in the third ; line 3 a spondaic ( or perhaps trochaic ) substitution in the first position ; and line 4 a pyrrhic in the third . Here the sub- stitutions serve both to relieve the ...
Page 45
... pyrrhic substitution in the first , third , and sixth positions . Whichever way we decide to mark or count the feet , however , we can hardly miss the significant adaptation of rhythm to meaning , in which the clause " the unnatural ...
... pyrrhic substitution in the first , third , and sixth positions . Whichever way we decide to mark or count the feet , however , we can hardly miss the significant adaptation of rhythm to meaning , in which the clause " the unnatural ...
Page 48
... pyrrhic - substitution line one foot longer than his " slow " spondaic - substitution line , Pope is showing off : he is deliberately making his job as hard as possible ; he is per- forming the metrical equivalent of shouting , “ Look ...
... pyrrhic - substitution line one foot longer than his " slow " spondaic - substitution line , Pope is showing off : he is deliberately making his job as hard as possible ; he is per- forming the metrical equivalent of shouting , “ Look ...
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