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 120
... sonnet form is the one who has developed an instinct for exploiting the principle of imbalance . A characteristic of the Petrarchan sonnet is its con- vention of the " turn , " which normally occurs at the start of line 9 , the ...
... sonnet form is the one who has developed an instinct for exploiting the principle of imbalance . A characteristic of the Petrarchan sonnet is its con- vention of the " turn , " which normally occurs at the start of line 9 , the ...
Page 121
... Petrarchan sonnet structure is the pattern of sexual pressure and release . Surely no sonnet succeeds as a sonnet that does not execute at the turn something analogous to the gen- eral kinds of " release " with which the reader's ...
... Petrarchan sonnet structure is the pattern of sexual pressure and release . Surely no sonnet succeeds as a sonnet that does not execute at the turn something analogous to the gen- eral kinds of " release " with which the reader's ...
Page 127
... Petrarchan form poses a problem in the dense and organic development of the second quatrain , the Shakespearean form ... Sonnet XXIX ” illustrates not only the relation of the first twelve lines to the concluding couplet but also , by the ...
... Petrarchan form poses a problem in the dense and organic development of the second quatrain , the Shakespearean form ... Sonnet XXIX ” illustrates not only the relation of the first twelve lines to the concluding couplet but also , by 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