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 109
... stichic or strophic . In stichic organization , line follows line without any formal or mathematical grouping of the lines into stanzas ; in strophic organization , the lines are arranged in stanzas of varying degrees of logical ...
... stichic or strophic . In stichic organization , line follows line without any formal or mathematical grouping of the lines into stanzas ; in strophic organization , the lines are arranged in stanzas of varying degrees of logical ...
Page 110
... Stichic organization has been found most appropriate for large , expansive narrative , dramatic , and meditative actions : Paradise Lost , King Lear , The Prelude , Four Quartets are stichic . Strophic organization , on the other hand ...
... Stichic organization has been found most appropriate for large , expansive narrative , dramatic , and meditative actions : Paradise Lost , King Lear , The Prelude , Four Quartets are stichic . Strophic organization , on the other hand ...
Page 125
... stichic or strophic arrangements : the hexameter contains an even number of feet , and frequently an even number of stresses ; it thus tends to break in the middle into two exactly even - hence monotonous -segments in a way that the ...
... stichic or strophic arrangements : the hexameter contains an even number of feet , and frequently an even number of stresses ; it thus tends to break in the middle into two exactly even - hence monotonous -segments in a way that the ...
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