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 60
... sprung rhythm . " He distinguishes it from what he calls common or running rhythm , that is , accentual - syllabic or accentual rhythm in which accented syllables tend to alternate with unaccented ones . Hopkins wanted his poetry to be ...
... sprung rhythm . " He distinguishes it from what he calls common or running rhythm , that is , accentual - syllabic or accentual rhythm in which accented syllables tend to alternate with unaccented ones . Hopkins wanted his poetry to be ...
Page 61
... sprung rhythm , however , is that it 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 ...
... sprung rhythm , however , is that it 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 ...
Page 67
... rhyme , and by the rejection of the strong medial caesura ) to the require- ments of an increasingly less inflected ... sprung rhythm - found especially in songs and other pieces set to music . An example is the anonymous fifteenth ...
... rhyme , and by the rejection of the strong medial caesura ) to the require- ments of an increasingly less inflected ... sprung rhythm - found especially in songs and other pieces set to music . An example is the anonymous fifteenth ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
Copyright | |
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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