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... illusion of sheer physical power , on the other hand , is the effect of the initial trochee which rein- forces the ... illusion of sudden and even awkward mo- tion : I com to pluck your Berries harsh and crude , And with forc'd fingers ...
... illusion of sheer physical power , on the other hand , is the effect of the initial trochee which rein- forces the ... illusion of sudden and even awkward mo- tion : I com to pluck your Berries harsh and crude , And with forc'd fingers ...
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... illusion , and the illusion that succeeds in de- lighting and illuminating the subtle and trained reader is what we want , no matter how many " rules " are violated or received idols shattered . It is in the light of this first critical ...
... illusion , and the illusion that succeeds in de- lighting and illuminating the subtle and trained reader is what we want , no matter how many " rules " are violated or received idols shattered . It is in the light of this first critical ...
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... illusion but also with a highly formal sense of balance : for example , against the four - stress base , the first ... illusion of flexible colloquial utterance is transmitted , the illusion is not bought at the cost of any lessening of ...
... illusion but also with a highly formal sense of balance : for example , against the four - stress base , the first ... illusion of flexible colloquial utterance is transmitted , the illusion is not bought at the cost of any lessening of ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 20 |
Metrical Variations | 36 |
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accentual accentual-syllabic action actual aesthetic anapestic beginning blank verse caesura century classical conventions Copyright critical device effect elements Eliot emotional emphasis English poetry English verse enjambment example experience expressive Faber feet fixed forms foot formal heroic couplet iambic pentameter illusion imply initial trochee irony kind language logical meaning medial caesura ment meter metrical variations metrist musical nature number of syllables octave Old English organization Paradise Lost pattern perhaps permission Petrarchan sonnet poem poet's Pope position principle prose prosodic pyrrhic quatrain reader regularity reinforce rhetorical rhyme scheme rhythmical Sapphic Sapphic stanza scansion seems sense sestet Shakespearean shape song sort sound Spenserian spondaic spondaic substitution spondee sprung rhythm stanza stanzaic form stichic stress strophic structure suggest technical technique tends tercet terminal trochee texture thing Thom Gunn thou tion tradition triplet trisyllabic trochee turn unstressed syllables versification W. H. Auden white space William words Wordsworth's Yeats