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 41
... Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness , Thou foster - child of silence and / slów tíme . / The end of the line attracts the Keatsian spondee also in " Ode to a Nightingale , " where the crucial line is slowed almost to a total stop ...
... Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness , Thou foster - child of silence and / slów tíme . / The end of the line attracts the Keatsian spondee also in " Ode to a Nightingale , " where the crucial line is slowed almost to a total stop ...
Page 78
... thou given the horse strength ? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder ? Does the hawk fly by thy wisdom , and stretch her wings toward the south ? Doth the eagle mount up at thy command , and make her nest on high ? ( 39 : 9 , 13 , 19 ...
... thou given the horse strength ? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder ? Does the hawk fly by thy wisdom , and stretch her wings toward the south ? Doth the eagle mount up at thy command , and make her nest on high ? ( 39 : 9 , 13 , 19 ...
Page 143
... Thou'st met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem : Το spare thee now is past my pow'r , Thou bonnie gem . But more often the bobs are used as fillips of impudent irony . In " Holy Willie's Prayer ...
... Thou'st met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem : Το spare thee now is past my pow'r , Thou bonnie gem . But more often the bobs are used as fillips of impudent irony . In " Holy Willie's Prayer ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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