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 49
... substitutions as trisyllabic feet , for by the nineteenth century trisyllabic substitution had be- come a metrical convention . But no matter how we scan , no one can fail to delight in the following , where Browning exploits the ...
... substitutions as trisyllabic feet , for by the nineteenth century trisyllabic substitution had be- come a metrical convention . But no matter how we scan , no one can fail to delight in the following , where Browning exploits the ...
Page 71
... trisyllabic substitution in duple metrical contexts becomes the technical hallmark of the age , just as the careful avoidance of trisyllabic substitution had been the rhythmical sign of eight- eenth - century poetry . In his ...
... trisyllabic substitution in duple metrical contexts becomes the technical hallmark of the age , just as the careful avoidance of trisyllabic substitution had been the rhythmical sign of eight- eenth - century poetry . In his ...
Page 103
... trisyllabic substitution has in fact taken place - the line is a strict decasyllable in harmony with all the other lines . With merely two restrained dissyllabic substitutions - a pyrrhic and a trochee - Frost has executed his effect ...
... trisyllabic substitution has in fact taken place - the line is a strict decasyllable in harmony with all the other lines . With merely two restrained dissyllabic substitutions - a pyrrhic and a trochee - Frost has executed his effect ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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