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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... spondaic substitution : Just writes to make his barrenness appear , And strains from hard- / bound bráins , / éight lines / a year . And the assonance which links strains , brains , and eight as- sociates the three words rhetorically as ...
... spondaic substitution : Just writes to make his barrenness appear , And strains from hard- / bound bráins , / éight lines / a year . And the assonance which links strains , brains , and eight as- sociates the three words rhetorically as ...
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Paul Fussell. And it seems typical of Milton's practice in spondaic substitution to return to a very pronounced iambic regularity to re - establish the metrical norm after these excursions into spondaic difficulty and strain . For ...
Paul Fussell. And it seems typical of Milton's practice in spondaic substitution to return to a very pronounced iambic regularity to re - establish the metrical norm after these excursions into spondaic difficulty and strain . For ...
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... spondaic rhythm in line 3 : At once a voice arose among The bleak / twígs Ŏv / ĕrhéad / In ǎ / full - héart / ĕd év / ĕnsong / Of joy illimited . But lest we forget that spondaic substitution is as rich an effect in comic as in serious ...
... spondaic rhythm in line 3 : At once a voice arose among The bleak / twígs Ŏv / ĕrhéad / In ǎ / full - héart / ĕd év / ĕnsong / Of joy illimited . But lest we forget that spondaic substitution is as rich an effect in comic as in serious ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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