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 28
... device of variety , a device which helps mitigate metrical rigors as it shifts from position to position in successive lines . In formal verse , whether classical , Romance , or Old English , the medial position of the caesura is ...
... device of variety , a device which helps mitigate metrical rigors as it shifts from position to position in successive lines . In formal verse , whether classical , Romance , or Old English , the medial position of the caesura is ...
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... device to reinforce effects of weight or difficulty or slowness . The only thing myste- rious about the device , actually , is the way it seldom fails to delight the reader . To trace some of its uses from the mid - sixteenth century to ...
... device to reinforce effects of weight or difficulty or slowness . The only thing myste- rious about the device , actually , is the way it seldom fails to delight the reader . To trace some of its uses from the mid - sixteenth century to ...
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... device to reinforce an illusion of sudden and even awkward mo- tion : I com to pluck your Berries harsh and crude , And with forc'd fingers rude , Shatter / your leaves before the mellowing year . At the end of the same poem an illusion ...
... device to reinforce an illusion of sudden and even awkward mo- tion : I com to pluck your Berries harsh and crude , And with forc'd fingers rude , Shatter / your leaves before the mellowing year . At the end of the same poem an illusion ...
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