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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... spondee or pyrrhic , in which the two syllables are of exactly the same weight , there would seem to be no need for such overscrupulous formu- lations as the terms " pseudo - spondee " or " false spondee , " which suggest that our work ...
... spondee or pyrrhic , in which the two syllables are of exactly the same weight , there would seem to be no need for such overscrupulous formu- lations as the terms " pseudo - spondee " or " false spondee , " which suggest that our work ...
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... spondee into even bolder relief : No motion has she now , no force , She neither hears nor sees ; Rolled round / in ... spondee also in " Ode to a Nightingale , " where the crucial line is slowed almost to a total stop by the spondee ...
... spondee into even bolder relief : No motion has she now , no force , She neither hears nor sees ; Rolled round / in ... spondee also in " Ode to a Nightingale , " where the crucial line is slowed almost to a total stop by the spondee ...
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... spondee , interrupts the rhythmic continuum of the line just as the breaks themselves once interrupted the continuum of the recorded symphonies . One of Pope's wittiest metrical exhibitions occurs in the " Essay on Criticism " where the ...
... spondee , interrupts the rhythmic continuum of the line just as the breaks themselves once interrupted the continuum of the recorded symphonies . One of Pope's wittiest metrical exhibitions occurs in the " Essay on Criticism " where the ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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