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 25
... varied and unpredictable : which is to say that the whole metrical contract between poet and reader becomes a different one . Consider , for example , Frost's " Out , Out- " ; here the caesuras are prevailingly medial and astonishingly ...
... varied and unpredictable : which is to say that the whole metrical contract between poet and reader becomes a different one . Consider , for example , Frost's " Out , Out- " ; here the caesuras are prevailingly medial and astonishingly ...
Page 34
... varied by the addition or sub- traction of unaccented syllables : these variations are accom- plished , we can say , by trisyllabic or monosyllabic substitution . In duple measures the substitution of a trisyllabic foot for a dissyl ...
... varied by the addition or sub- traction of unaccented syllables : these variations are accom- plished , we can say , by trisyllabic or monosyllabic substitution . In duple measures the substitution of a trisyllabic foot for a dissyl ...
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... varied iambic pentameter norm against which meaningful variation can occur . Everything proceeds normally and calmly until line 10 , which is the pivot of the poem , the " turn " both thematically , structurally , and metri- cally ...
... varied iambic pentameter norm against which meaningful variation can occur . Everything proceeds normally and calmly until line 10 , which is the pivot of the poem , the " turn " both thematically , structurally , and metri- cally ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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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