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 87
... sense Whitman exploits within poems as well , as in Song of Myself , Section 20 , where the expansion of the understanding through the perception of accumulated figures reflects itself in the ex- pansion of the lines from 6 , to 18 , to ...
... sense Whitman exploits within poems as well , as in Song of Myself , Section 20 , where the expansion of the understanding through the perception of accumulated figures reflects itself in the ex- pansion of the lines from 6 , to 18 , to ...
Page 128
... sense of stanzas has become a very complex act of mediation between what our eyes see and what our inner ears hear . When we approach a short poem on the printed page , the first thing that strikes us is the general typographic shape ...
... sense of stanzas has become a very complex act of mediation between what our eyes see and what our inner ears hear . When we approach a short poem on the printed page , the first thing that strikes us is the general typographic shape ...
Page 171
... sense and shape , our pleasures of dual per- ception are largely at an end . The poem has difficulty sustaining itself on its own terms once it passes the crucial point of its visual wit ; Mr. Hollander's lees are no more exciting than ...
... sense and shape , our pleasures of dual per- ception are largely at an end . The poem has difficulty sustaining itself on its own terms once it passes the crucial point of its visual wit ; Mr. Hollander's lees are no more exciting than ...
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