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 86
... Century : The great phenomenon in nineteenth - century English versification is the rejection of strict accentual - syllabism in favor of accentualism . This is to say that the use of trisyllabic substitu- tion in duple metrical ...
... Century : The great phenomenon in nineteenth - century English versification is the rejection of strict accentual - syllabism in favor of accentualism . This is to say that the use of trisyllabic substitu- tion in duple metrical ...
Page 87
... century was conceived by many- and may be conceived by us - as an expression of nine- teenth - century liberalism or of the primitivist strain of romanticism . Another unique nineteenth - century pro- sodic phenomenon is the attempt to ...
... century was conceived by many- and may be conceived by us - as an expression of nine- teenth - century liberalism or of the primitivist strain of romanticism . Another unique nineteenth - century pro- sodic phenomenon is the attempt to ...
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... century poet avoided the closed heroic couplet , or the twentieth- century poet avoids the Spenserian stanza . One of the most obvious differences between modern poetry and that of only sixty or seventy years ago is the abandonment of ...
... century poet avoided the closed heroic couplet , or the twentieth- century poet avoids the Spenserian stanza . One of the most obvious differences between modern poetry and that of only sixty or seventy years ago is the abandonment of ...
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