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 11
... accentual meters like Yeats's and Auden's are regarded as " loose iambic , " we can begin to invoke the term " strict iambic " as the number of both accents and syllables becomes regu- larized - that is , as the accentual stiffens ...
... accentual meters like Yeats's and Auden's are regarded as " loose iambic , " we can begin to invoke the term " strict iambic " as the number of both accents and syllables becomes regu- larized - that is , as the accentual stiffens ...
Page 12
... accentual - syllabic system is the general mode of versi- fication employed by conservative prosodic practition- ers in English : Dryden , Pope , Swift , and Johnson are examples . Accentual - syllabic meter seems to be fash- ionable ...
... accentual - syllabic system is the general mode of versi- fication employed by conservative prosodic practition- ers in English : Dryden , Pope , Swift , and Johnson are examples . Accentual - syllabic meter seems to be fash- ionable ...
Page 80
... accentual quality of the language seems to weaken slightly , and instead of a prosody based on emphatic pressures at equal times we find one expressive of a new conscious- ness of the qualitative similarities between stressed and ...
... accentual quality of the language seems to weaken slightly , and instead of a prosody based on emphatic pressures at equal times we find one expressive of a new conscious- ness of the qualitative similarities between stressed and ...
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