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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... words in poetic lines , and until we master the art of understanding and marking the rhetorical emphasis of the words as if they were prose we are un- prepared to venture upon the next step in scansion , a step fraught with the danger ...
... words in poetic lines , and until we master the art of understanding and marking the rhetorical emphasis of the words as if they were prose we are un- prepared to venture upon the next step in scansion , a step fraught with the danger ...
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... word detail with the accent on the second syllable . That , at least , is the pronunciation prescribed in most diction- aries . Now if poetic rhythm were always supplied entirely by the rhetorical emphasis of the actual words in their ...
... word detail with the accent on the second syllable . That , at least , is the pronunciation prescribed in most diction- aries . Now if poetic rhythm were always supplied entirely by the rhetorical emphasis of the actual words in their ...
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... words . The standard arrangement of the terminal words looks like this : abcdef , faebdc , cfdabe , ecbfad , deacfb , bdfeca , eca . The sestina has attracted some nineteenth- and twentieth - century poets , in- cluding Swinburne ...
... words . The standard arrangement of the terminal words looks like this : abcdef , faebdc , cfdabe , ecbfad , deacfb , bdfeca , eca . The sestina has attracted some nineteenth- and twentieth - century poets , in- cluding Swinburne ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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