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 60
... beginnings of lines are especially vigorous just because they occur initially : even in lines so boldly run - on as ... beginning of the next . Like a sudden drum beat after silence , the trochaic syllable , when it occurs initially ...
... beginnings of lines are especially vigorous just because they occur initially : even in lines so boldly run - on as ... beginning of the next . Like a sudden drum beat after silence , the trochaic syllable , when it occurs initially ...
Page 120
... beginning of the sestet . It is per- haps more accurate to say that the turn occurs some- where in the white space that separates line 8 from line 9 , and that line 9 simply reflects or records it . But wherever we think of it as ...
... beginning of the sestet . It is per- haps more accurate to say that the turn occurs some- where in the white space that separates line 8 from line 9 , and that line 9 simply reflects or records it . But wherever we think of it as ...
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... beginning of the third quatrain or somewhere within it . If the Petrarchan form poses a problem in the dense and organic development of the second quatrain , the Shakespearean form asks even more of the poet's capacity to develop rather ...
... beginning of the third quatrain or somewhere within it . If the Petrarchan form poses a problem in the dense and organic development of the second quatrain , the Shakespearean form asks even more of the poet's capacity to develop rather ...
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