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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... trochee when it coincides with different syntactical elements . The initial verbal trochee of line 3 ( Look'd at ) functions , like Milton's , to transmit an effect of sudden vigor ; but the initial modifying trochee of the last line ...
... trochee when it coincides with different syntactical elements . The initial verbal trochee of line 3 ( Look'd at ) functions , like Milton's , to transmit an effect of sudden vigor ; but the initial modifying trochee of the last line ...
Page 58
... trochee in " Among School Children " : Better to smile on all that smile , and show There is a comfortable kind of old / scárecrow . / And to Auden's disposition of the same device : I sit in one of the dives On Fifty - second Street ...
... trochee in " Among School Children " : Better to smile on all that smile , and show There is a comfortable kind of old / scárecrow . / And to Auden's disposition of the same device : I sit in one of the dives On Fifty - second Street ...
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... trochee to reinforce its effects of simplicity and sincerity . We find a suggestion of the " sincere " terminal trochee in Chatterton's " Mynstrelles Songe " from Aella , where a female speaker , ap- parently mindful of Ophelia's fate ...
... trochee to reinforce its effects of simplicity and sincerity . We find a suggestion of the " sincere " terminal trochee in Chatterton's " Mynstrelles Songe " from Aella , where a female speaker , ap- parently mindful of Ophelia's fate ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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