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 131
... tercets . It is probably better to use tercet only to distinguish three lines organized other than by a thrice - repeated ... tercet : O wild West Wind , thou breath of Autumn's being , Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are ...
... tercets . It is probably better to use tercet only to distinguish three lines organized other than by a thrice - repeated ... tercet : O wild West Wind , thou breath of Autumn's being , Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are ...
Page 132
... tercet stanza which has never really established itself in English is the terza rima , the stanza of Dante's Divine Comedy . The tercets rhyme aba , bcb , cdc , and so on , each tercet beginning and ending with the center rhyme of the ...
... tercet stanza which has never really established itself in English is the terza rima , the stanza of Dante's Divine Comedy . The tercets rhyme aba , bcb , cdc , and so on , each tercet beginning and ending with the center rhyme of the ...
Page 133
... tercets tend to remain awkward rarities among English stanzas , quatrains - stanzas of four lines - are the most popular and " natural " strophic form . Most of the actual poems that ordinary people remember ( and recite ) are written ...
... tercets tend to remain awkward rarities among English stanzas , quatrains - stanzas of four lines - are the most popular and " natural " strophic form . Most of the actual poems that ordinary people remember ( and recite ) are written ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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