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. that the line embodies . Even more venturesome is Frost's metrical practice at the beginning of his ... Frost reverses completely to a dactylic movement , and then presents a caesura and a monosyllable as the equivalent of a ...
Paul Fussell. that the line embodies . Even more venturesome is Frost's metrical practice at the beginning of his ... Frost reverses completely to a dactylic movement , and then presents a caesura and a monosyllable as the equivalent of a ...
Page 51
... Frost's thrush in " Come In . " Like Frost's thrush , Hardy's makes its appearance in the midst of a startling trochaic reversal in line 2 ; and the heart's fullness naturally takes a spondaic rhythm in line 3 : At once a voice arose ...
... Frost's thrush in " Come In . " Like Frost's thrush , Hardy's makes its appearance in the midst of a startling trochaic reversal in line 2 ; and the heart's fullness naturally takes a spondaic rhythm in line 3 : At once a voice arose ...
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... Frost solves this technical problem largely through meter . The first eight lines establish an informally varied iambic ... Frost's technical achievement here when we realize that the effect of a triple rhythm is merely an illusion : no ...
... Frost solves this technical problem largely through meter . The first eight lines establish an informally varied iambic ... Frost's technical achievement here when we realize that the effect of a triple rhythm is merely an illusion : no ...
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