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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... critical princi- ples . In the appraisal of poetry an axiom perhaps gen- erally accepted is that , given a poetic subject and treatment that “ work ” —that is , that stand a good chance of engaging repeatedly the best wits of a good ...
... critical princi- ples . In the appraisal of poetry an axiom perhaps gen- erally accepted is that , given a poetic subject and treatment that “ work ” —that is , that stand a good chance of engaging repeatedly the best wits of a good ...
Page 92
... critical princi- ples : The meter of a poem , no matter how extrinsi- cally discovered and traditionally exploited by the poet , should give the illusion of having arisen intrinsi- cally and subtly from within the uniqueness of the ...
... critical princi- ples : The meter of a poem , no matter how extrinsi- cally discovered and traditionally exploited by the poet , should give the illusion of having arisen intrinsi- cally and subtly from within the uniqueness of the ...
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... critical principle : sub- stitutions should be such as to participate in the total meaning , which is to say that they should be meaning- ful in themselves rather than accidental . As Aristotle says Critical Implications of Metrical ...
... critical principle : sub- stitutions should be such as to participate in the total meaning , which is to say that they should be meaning- ful in themselves rather than accidental . As Aristotle says Critical Implications of Metrical ...
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