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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... caesura , or extrametrical pause , within the lines . The caesura here , positioned after the fourth syllable , near the middle of the line , is called a medial caesura . If it should occur near the beginning of the line , it is called ...
... caesura , or extrametrical pause , within the lines . The caesura here , positioned after the fourth syllable , near the middle of the line , is called a medial caesura . If it should occur near the beginning of the line , it is called ...
Page 28
... caesura provides a metrical fulcrum for the rhetorical antitheses . Some lines have more than one caesura ; some have none . Unless the slight unpunctuated pause after lap in the last line of the Rubaiyat stanza be considered a caesura ...
... caesura provides a metrical fulcrum for the rhetorical antitheses . Some lines have more than one caesura ; some have none . Unless the slight unpunctuated pause after lap in the last line of the Rubaiyat stanza be considered a caesura ...
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... caesura occurs regularly in the medial position , we are dealing with a different kind of verse from that in which caesura placement is varied and unpredictable : which is to say that the whole metrical contract becomes a dif- ferent ...
... caesura occurs regularly in the medial position , we are dealing with a different kind of verse from that in which caesura placement is varied and unpredictable : which is to say that the whole metrical contract becomes a dif- ferent ...
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