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 126
... white space between the two parts is an ascent to a slightly higher plateau of abstrac- tion . The white space does not partake of the dramatic , as it does in a triumphant sonnet based on the plan of Petrarchan dis- proportion . What ...
... white space between the two parts is an ascent to a slightly higher plateau of abstrac- tion . The white space does not partake of the dramatic , as it does in a triumphant sonnet based on the plan of Petrarchan dis- proportion . What ...
Page 155
... white space between stanzas means something . If nothing is conceived to be taking place within it , if no kind of silent pressure or advance or reconsideration or illumination or perception seems to be going on in that white space ...
... white space between stanzas means something . If nothing is conceived to be taking place within it , if no kind of silent pressure or advance or reconsideration or illumination or perception seems to be going on in that white space ...
Page 161
... white space between these two stanzas with what happens in the space between Margot Ruddock's : it is the difference between total drama and nothing at all . But the relation between two things need not be one of op- position to justify ...
... white space between these two stanzas with what happens in the space between Margot Ruddock's : it is the difference between total drama and nothing at all . But the relation between two things need not be one of op- position to justify ...
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