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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... sounds and the pauses strike the ear in the normal way of sounds and silences , and the results lend themselves to notation by physicists and acoustic prosodists . But what happens when we , as we usually do , encounter a poem through ...
... sounds and the pauses strike the ear in the normal way of sounds and silences , and the results lend themselves to notation by physicists and acoustic prosodists . But what happens when we , as we usually do , encounter a poem through ...
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... sound relationships which it advertises so blatantly but , surprisingly , important logical and semantic relationships as well . W. K. Wimsatt , in his essay " One Relation of Rhyme to Reason , " has emphasized that every rhyme invites ...
... sound relationships which it advertises so blatantly but , surprisingly , important logical and semantic relationships as well . W. K. Wimsatt , in his essay " One Relation of Rhyme to Reason , " has emphasized that every rhyme invites ...
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... sound similarity " says " that they resemble each other , while the rhetoric of the stanza asserts their difference . We are moved in two directions at once , or we are abused only to be disabused : irony is the result . A similar sort ...
... sound similarity " says " that they resemble each other , while the rhetoric of the stanza asserts their difference . We are moved in two directions at once , or we are abused only to be disabused : irony is the result . A similar sort ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
Copyright | |
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