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 28
... Old English verse the caesura is used in a fairly predictable way . It is only with the development in English of the staple iambic pentameter line — that ubiquitous and apparently per- manent vehicle - that varied and expressive ...
... Old English verse the caesura is used in a fairly predictable way . It is only with the development in English of the staple iambic pentameter line — that ubiquitous and apparently per- manent vehicle - that varied and expressive ...
Page 77
... Old 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 ...
... Old 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 ...
Page 78
... Old English mode . Most of W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety is written in a verse closely resembling the Old English accentual system , and now and then very pleasantly anachronistic effects result : lightning at noonday Swiftly ...
... Old English mode . Most of W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety is written in a verse closely resembling the Old English accentual system , and now and then very pleasantly anachronistic effects result : lightning at noonday Swiftly ...
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