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 96
... Tetrameter couplets threaten a similar danger , and only a master can use them with- out risking boredom . The mid - eighteenth - century poet Joseph Warton is not such a master , as his practice in the ode " To Fancy " indicates ...
... Tetrameter couplets threaten a similar danger , and only a master can use them with- out risking boredom . The mid - eighteenth - century poet Joseph Warton is not such a master , as his practice in the ode " To Fancy " indicates ...
Page 134
... tetrameters like lines 1 and 3 , the stanza , now a tetrameter quatrain , is called long measure : When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died , My richest gain I count but loss , And pour contempt on all my pride ...
... tetrameters like lines 1 and 3 , the stanza , now a tetrameter quatrain , is called long measure : When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died , My richest gain I count but loss , And pour contempt on all my pride ...
Page 143
... tetrameters and one following a final iambic tetrameter . The rhyme scheme is aaabab . Sometimes the bob - lines are used to add a final overlay of tenderness , as in " To a Mountain Daisy " : Wee modest crimson - tipped flow'r , Thou ...
... tetrameters and one following a final iambic tetrameter . The rhyme scheme is aaabab . Sometimes the bob - lines are used to add a final overlay of tenderness , as in " To a Mountain Daisy " : Wee modest crimson - tipped flow'r , Thou ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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