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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... Paradise Lost — I first learned how to delight in meter . P. F. Part One Poetic Meter • 1 The Nature of Meter.
... Paradise Lost — I first learned how to delight in meter . P. F. Part One Poetic Meter • 1 The Nature of Meter.
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... Paradise Lost Milton adheres quite consciously to a fixed decasyllabic limitation . The end of the Renaissance is thus coincident with a reaction against the metrical spontaneity of the Eliza- bethans : in both theory and practice ...
... Paradise Lost Milton adheres quite consciously to a fixed decasyllabic limitation . The end of the Renaissance is thus coincident with a reaction against the metrical spontaneity of the Eliza- bethans : in both theory and practice ...
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... Paradise Lost , King Lear , The Prelude , Four Quartets are stichic . Strophic organization , on the other hand , has been found most appropriate for the enactment of dense and closely circumscribed mo- ments of emotion or argument ...
... Paradise Lost , King Lear , The Prelude , Four Quartets are stichic . Strophic organization , on the other hand , has been found most appropriate for the enactment of dense and closely circumscribed mo- ments of emotion or argument ...
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