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 90
... delight in ways which accord with the experienced rhythmic traditions of Modern English . If these traditions should ever be- come totally irrecoverable , it would not be pleasant to calculate what will be lost forever . 5 Some Critical ...
... delight in ways which accord with the experienced rhythmic traditions of Modern English . If these traditions should ever be- come totally irrecoverable , it would not be pleasant to calculate what will be lost forever . 5 Some Critical ...
Page 136
... delight based on an aesthetic of pattern - and - variation . If we are skillful readers , we will gradually learn to use our perceptions of stanzaic form to harmonize our senses of sight and of hearing , and thus perhaps to advance ...
... delight based on an aesthetic of pattern - and - variation . If we are skillful readers , we will gradually learn to use our perceptions of stanzaic form to harmonize our senses of sight and of hearing , and thus perhaps to advance ...
Page 198
... delight and the fullest enlightenment ; for the reader is an individual talent too , and it is technical knowledge and command that release his own singular energies and that open for him his own unique vision . ALLEN , GAY WILSON ...
... delight and the fullest enlightenment ; for the reader is an individual talent too , and it is technical knowledge and command that release his own singular energies and that open for him his own unique vision . ALLEN , GAY WILSON ...
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