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 64
... Eliot's passages with the original to which it alludes . Goldsmith's When lovely woman stoops to folly , And finds too late that men betray remains within the pleasantly predictable , manage- able world of the iambic . But by merely ...
... Eliot's passages with the original to which it alludes . Goldsmith's When lovely woman stoops to folly , And finds too late that men betray remains within the pleasantly predictable , manage- able world of the iambic . But by merely ...
Page 192
... Eliot , in his essay " Tradition and the Individual Talent , " which appeared almost a half- century ago , who was ... Eliot . “ And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without sur- rendering himself wholly to the work to be done ...
... Eliot , in his essay " Tradition and the Individual Talent , " which appeared almost a half- century ago , who was ... Eliot . “ And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without sur- rendering himself wholly to the work to be done ...
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... Eliot's account in " Sweeney Among the Nightingales " of the mechanical actions of " the person in the Spanish cape , " who Tries to sit on Sweeney's knees Slips and pulls the table cloth Overturns a coffee - cup , Reorganized upon the ...
... Eliot's account in " Sweeney Among the Nightingales " of the mechanical actions of " the person in the Spanish cape , " who Tries to sit on Sweeney's knees Slips and pulls the table cloth Overturns a coffee - cup , Reorganized upon the ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 20 |
Metrical Variations | 36 |
Copyright | |
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accentual accentual-syllabic action actual aesthetic anapestic beginning blank verse caesura century classical conventions critical dactylic density device effect elements emotional emphasis English poetry English verse enjambment example experience expressive feet fixed forms foot formal Frost's heroic couplet I. A. Richards iambic pentameter illusion imply initial trochee irony kind language logical lyric meaning medial caesura ment meter metrical variations metrist musical nature number of syllables octave Old English organization Paradise Lost perhaps 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 Spenserian spondaic spondaic substitution spondee sprung rhythm stanza stanzaic form stichic stress strophic structure suggest technical technique tends tercet terminal trochee tetrameter couplets texture thing Thom Gunn thou tion tradition triplet trisyllabic trochaic trochee turn unstressed syllables versification white space words Wordsworth's Yeats