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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... rhetorically meaningful caesura , or extrametrical pause , within the lines . The caesura here , posi- tioned after the ... rhetorical anti- theses . Some lines have more than one caesura ; some have none . Unless the slight unpunctuated ...
... rhetorically meaningful caesura , or extrametrical pause , within the lines . The caesura here , posi- tioned after the ... rhetorical anti- theses . Some lines have more than one caesura ; some have none . Unless the slight unpunctuated ...
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... rhetorical emphasis would be counterpointed . Old English versification presents a delusive air of simplicity : actually it is a metrical system of very subtle expressiveness , for its departures from the ideal meter and its often ...
... rhetorical emphasis would be counterpointed . Old English versification presents a delusive air of simplicity : actually it is a metrical system of very subtle expressiveness , for its departures from the ideal meter and its often ...
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... rhetorical pressures within it . Unlike the prosodic theorizing and speculation of the Renais- sance , which is still rather sparse , that of the eighteenth century is copious ; it is also systematic , and , under the influence of the ...
... rhetorical pressures within it . Unlike the prosodic theorizing and speculation of the Renais- sance , which is still rather sparse , that of the eighteenth century is copious ; it is also systematic , and , under the influence of the ...
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