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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... elements of poems : it is not his work to pres- ent " beautiful rhythms " but beautiful — that is , wholly coherent - poems in which the rhythms perfectly fuse with the many other sources of meaning . Throughout the history of English ...
... elements of poems : it is not his work to pres- ent " beautiful rhythms " but beautiful — that is , wholly coherent - poems in which the rhythms perfectly fuse with the many other sources of meaning . Throughout the history of English ...
Page 122
... element of earth , and we enter the elements of air and water , elements which assume a special union here because of the metaphor by which the new planet " swims . " Sometimes the turn signals a shift in address or rhetorical focus ...
... element of earth , and we enter the elements of air and water , elements which assume a special union here because of the metaphor by which the new planet " swims . " Sometimes the turn signals a shift in address or rhetorical focus ...
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... elements of a fully successful poem . The basic stanzaic building blocks in English poetry are the couplet , the tercet , and the quatrain . Thus the Petrarchan sonnet can be seen as an arrangement of two quatrains and either two ...
... elements of a fully successful poem . The basic stanzaic building blocks in English poetry are the couplet , the tercet , and the quatrain . Thus the Petrarchan sonnet can be seen as an arrangement of two quatrains and either two ...
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