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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Paul Fussell. structure of English verse than it has in many con- tinental poetries . 2. The English language appears most naturally to organize its rhythms in ascending patterns : that is , the main instinct in English poetry is for ...
Paul Fussell. structure of English verse than it has in many con- tinental poetries . 2. The English language appears most naturally to organize its rhythms in ascending patterns : that is , the main instinct in English poetry is for ...
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... English accentual meter has only a limited capacity for " interplay , " most of the poets who have written in it have worked so skillfully that we hardly notice the limitations of the metrical system . Some modern metrical critics and ...
... English accentual meter has only a limited capacity for " interplay , " most of the poets who have written in it have worked so skillfully that we hardly notice the limitations of the metrical system . Some modern metrical critics and ...
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... poetry . MALOF , JOSEPH , “ The Native Rhythm of English Meters , ” Uni- versity of Texas Studies in Literature and Language , V ( 1964 ) , 580-94 . A clear presentation of the argument that one source of metrical interest in the English ...
... poetry . MALOF , JOSEPH , “ The Native Rhythm of English Meters , ” Uni- versity of Texas Studies in Literature and Language , V ( 1964 ) , 580-94 . A clear presentation of the argument that one source of metrical interest in the English ...
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 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