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 18
... stressed syllables , and quarter or half notes to represent stressed syllables of varying weights . Caesuras are sometimes indicated by musical rests of various lengths . Musical scansion does have the advantage of representing more ...
... stressed syllables , and quarter or half notes to represent stressed syllables of varying weights . Caesuras are sometimes indicated by musical rests of various lengths . Musical scansion does have the advantage of representing more ...
Page 60
... stressed syllables . As he says , " Why , if it is forcible in prose to say lashed rod , am I obliged to weaken this in verse , which ought to be stronger , not weaker . . . ? " Thus he posits that " even one stressed syllable may make ...
... stressed syllables . As he says , " Why , if it is forcible in prose to say lashed rod , am I obliged to weaken this in verse , which ought to be stronger , not weaker . . . ? " Thus he posits that " even one stressed syllable may make ...
Page 63
... stressed syllables arranged , together with any number of un- stressed syllables , in two hemistichs ( or half - lines ) of two stresses each . Stressed syllables frequently alliterate , and the alliteration tends to emphasize even ...
... stressed syllables arranged , together with any number of un- stressed syllables , in two hemistichs ( or half - lines ) of two stresses each . Stressed syllables frequently alliterate , and the alliteration tends to emphasize even ...
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