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 70
... thing more strange , than on Nile's slime , the Sun E'er bred , or all which into Noah's Ark came : A thing which would have pos'd Adam to name : Notable in Pope's version is an impulse toward both stress reg- ularity and greater line ...
... thing more strange , than on Nile's slime , the Sun E'er bred , or all which into Noah's Ark came : A thing which would have pos'd Adam to name : Notable in Pope's version is an impulse toward both stress reg- ularity and greater line ...
Page 126
... thing that takes place in the white space between the two parts is an ascent to a slightly higher plateau of abstrac ... things and of themselves . Poetic forms are like that : they tend to say things even if words are not at the moment ...
... thing that takes place in the white space between the two parts is an ascent to a slightly higher plateau of abstrac ... things and of themselves . Poetic forms are like that : they tend to say things even if words are not at the moment ...
Page 179
... thing that makes rhythmical meaning possible . We can consider , for example , the rhythmical treatment of line 8 , the line which introduces us to the exhausted and no longer interested Bertram . By inverting the syntax of the initial ...
... thing that makes rhythmical meaning possible . We can consider , for example , the rhythmical treatment of line 8 , the line which introduces us to the exhausted and no longer interested Bertram . By inverting the syntax of the initial ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
Copyright | |
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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