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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Paul Fussell. The two parts are the three quatrains , on the one hand , and the concluding or resolving couplet , on the other . The abstract shape looks like this : TURN . b FIRST QUATRAIN a b d SECOND QUATRAIN C d e THIRD QUATRAIN g g ...
Paul Fussell. The two parts are the three quatrains , on the one hand , and the concluding or resolving couplet , on the other . The abstract shape looks like this : TURN . b FIRST QUATRAIN a b d SECOND QUATRAIN C d e THIRD QUATRAIN g g ...
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... QUATRAIN THIRD QUATRAIN : } COUPLET The effect of the two internal couplets is to fuse the quatrains to each other and to provide a structural basis for a special tightness in the reasoning . But in the following , from Spenser's ...
... QUATRAIN THIRD QUATRAIN : } COUPLET The effect of the two internal couplets is to fuse the quatrains to each other and to provide a structural basis for a special tightness in the reasoning . But in the following , from Spenser's ...
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... quatrain , is called long measure : When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died , My richest ... quatrain is what we can call the couplet quatrain : That which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples ...
... quatrain , is called long measure : When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died , My richest ... quatrain is what we can call the couplet quatrain : That which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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