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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... anapestic lines is so firmly asso- ciated by now with light impudence or indecency that a poet can hardly write in anything resembling this measure without evoking smiles . To " translate " a limerick into , say , iambic tetrameter , is ...
... anapestic lines is so firmly asso- ciated by now with light impudence or indecency that a poet can hardly write in anything resembling this measure without evoking smiles . To " translate " a limerick into , say , iambic tetrameter , is ...
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... anapest ( anapaest ) ; anapestic intervene trochee ; trochaic topsy ་ dactyl ; dactylic merrily And the following , although obviously not encoun- tered as The Technique of Scansion 23.
... anapest ( anapaest ) ; anapestic intervene trochee ; trochaic topsy ་ dactyl ; dactylic merrily And the following , although obviously not encoun- tered as The Technique of Scansion 23.
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... anapestic feet is said to be in ascending or rising rhythm : the rhythm is so called because the reader is presumed ... anapests and dactyls , triple . To exemplify poetic feet by single words , as we have done above , is of course to ...
... anapestic feet is said to be in ascending or rising rhythm : the rhythm is so called because the reader is presumed ... anapests and dactyls , triple . To exemplify poetic feet by single words , as we have done above , is of course to ...
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