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 76
... verse will strike us as a flagrant oxymoron . But if free verse seems an affront to logic , the term has the merit of familiarity and is thus handier than the pedantic cadenced verse or the awkward non - metrical verse or the ...
... verse will strike us as a flagrant oxymoron . But if free verse seems an affront to logic , the term has the merit of familiarity and is thus handier than the pedantic cadenced verse or the awkward non - metrical verse or the ...
Page 77
... verse , " says D. H. Lawrence , and we can agree . But an empirical study of thousands of free - verse poems will lead any reader to some generalizations by way of definition . Like other distinguishable verse mediums , free verse ...
... verse , " says D. H. Lawrence , and we can agree . But an empirical study of thousands of free - verse poems will lead any reader to some generalizations by way of definition . Like other distinguishable verse mediums , free verse ...
Page 84
... verse technique are the delights of wandering ( Whitman's Song of the Open Road ) and the unexpected value of the lowly ( Song of Myself , Section 5 ; W. C. Williams , Spring and All ) , revealed by informal but precise scrutiny of ...
... verse technique are the delights of wandering ( Whitman's Song of the Open Road ) and the unexpected value of the lowly ( Song of Myself , Section 5 ; W. C. Williams , Spring and All ) , revealed by informal but precise scrutiny of ...
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