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 41
... seems it rich to die , To cease upon the midnight with / nó paín . / And the plethora of terminal spondees in " La Belle Dame sans Merci " seems to fix the situation of that poem in a world where time has quite stopped : I saw their ...
... seems it rich to die , To cease upon the midnight with / nó paín . / And the plethora of terminal spondees in " La Belle Dame sans Merci " seems to fix the situation of that poem in a world where time has quite stopped : I saw their ...
Page 61
... seems inappropriate to any other — and more complicated - tone . Comedy in it would seem unlikely , and wit all but impossible . Hopkins's " At the Wedding March " suggests the kind of materials and tone to which sprung rhythm seems ...
... seems inappropriate to any other — and more complicated - tone . Comedy in it would seem unlikely , and wit all but impossible . Hopkins's " At the Wedding March " suggests the kind of materials and tone to which sprung rhythm seems ...
Page 123
... seems to accord with the modes of the intellectual , analytic , and even satiric operations of the human sensibility . Shakespeare seems to imply as much , indeed , in his use of the English rather than the Petrarchan form in Romeo and ...
... seems to accord with the modes of the intellectual , analytic , and even satiric operations of the human sensibility . Shakespeare seems to imply as much , indeed , in his use of the English rather than the Petrarchan form in Romeo and ...
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