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 77
... texture without metrical reg- ularity - measurable meter is as much an anomaly in a free - verse poem as the want of it is in a metered poem . And most free - verse poems eschew rhyme as well . One reason Ogden Nash's poems are funny ...
... texture without metrical reg- ularity - measurable meter is as much an anomaly in a free - verse poem as the want of it is in a metered poem . And most free - verse poems eschew rhyme as well . One reason Ogden Nash's poems are funny ...
Page 90
... texture of a poem must be dense : when old - fashioned critics assert that in a poem every vein must be rifted with ore , that is what , in their quaint way , they mean . Density of texture is attained by an interweaving of poetic ...
... texture of a poem must be dense : when old - fashioned critics assert that in a poem every vein must be rifted with ore , that is what , in their quaint way , they mean . Density of texture is attained by an interweaving of poetic ...
Page 109
... texture and the structure of a poem . The texture , he found , is “ local , " unique to a given poem , while the structure involves the larger elements of form which ally the poem with a tradition or with history or with a wider world ...
... texture and the structure of a poem . The texture , he found , is “ local , " unique to a given poem , while the structure involves the larger elements of form which ally the poem with a tradition or with history or with a wider world ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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