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 32
... actual rhythms of the words . As Joseph Malof has said recently : “ One kind of energy in poetic language comes from the wrestling of abstract patterns with actual prose rhythms . The 32 PART ONE POETIC METER.
... actual rhythms of the words . As Joseph Malof has said recently : “ One kind of energy in poetic language comes from the wrestling of abstract patterns with actual prose rhythms . The 32 PART ONE POETIC METER.
Page 33
... actual words are continuously either reinforcing or departing from , has the power now and then to force a metrical rather than a natural pro- nunciation of a word or phrase . Consider what happens in these two lines of the old ballad ...
... actual words are continuously either reinforcing or departing from , has the power now and then to force a metrical rather than a natural pro- nunciation of a word or phrase . Consider what happens in these two lines of the old ballad ...
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... actual rhythm of the language in a line that it will force the pronuncia- tion to bend to its will . If we must give a preference to either the metrical or the actual , it is probably safest to err in scansion on behalf of the actual ...
... actual rhythm of the language in a line that it will force the pronuncia- tion to bend to its will . If we must give a preference to either the metrical or the actual , it is probably safest to err in scansion on behalf of the actual ...
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