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 132
... action which is implicit in the formal disproportion of their two parts , an action of complication and resolution , or of something like it . Indeed , the two parts of “ Pied Beauty , " despite their presumably meaningful differ- ence ...
... action which is implicit in the formal disproportion of their two parts , an action of complication and resolution , or of something like it . Indeed , the two parts of “ Pied Beauty , " despite their presumably meaningful differ- ence ...
Page 169
... action of the whole poem consists of three se- quential subordinate actions : remembrance of the flower ; remembrance of the maid ; and a justification for inviting each to enter the one poem , that is , an assertion of the poem's unity ...
... action of the whole poem consists of three se- quential subordinate actions : remembrance of the flower ; remembrance of the maid ; and a justification for inviting each to enter the one poem , that is , an assertion of the poem's unity ...
Page 178
... action is introduced implies a parallelism with the weight of the bat's action . The difficulty is that the bat has been given eight feet whereas the equally important beetle is vouchsafed only six . But we find statement and stanzaic ...
... action is introduced implies a parallelism with the weight of the bat's action . The difficulty is that the bat has been given eight feet whereas the equally important beetle is vouchsafed only six . But we find statement and stanzaic ...
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