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 73
... reason is the greater ac- cessibility to American poets of the fructifying , revolutionary example of Whitman . During the 1920's and 1930's , Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams tightened the freely cadenced long line of Whitman and ...
... reason is the greater ac- cessibility to American poets of the fructifying , revolutionary example of Whitman . During the 1920's and 1930's , Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams tightened the freely cadenced long line of Whitman and ...
Page 151
... reason ) ; the lines are unrhymed , and thus offer no formal rationale distinguishing octave from sestet . There are ... reasons , abandons a dimension of meaning that perhaps it cannot afford to lose . As he says : Prose is written in ...
... reason ) ; the lines are unrhymed , and thus offer no formal rationale distinguishing octave from sestet . There are ... reasons , abandons a dimension of meaning that perhaps it cannot afford to lose . As he says : Prose is written in ...
Page 158
... reason for the space between the first stanza and the second , but it would be hard to find one for the space between the second and the third . This three - stanza ar- rangement is an example of what we can call pseudo - form . We can ...
... reason for the space between the first stanza and the second , but it would be hard to find one for the space between the second and the third . This three - stanza ar- rangement is an example of what we can call pseudo - form . We can ...
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