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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... emotional analysis that precedes poetic com- position , in the moment of composition itself the poet is most conspicuously performing as metrist . And the same principle holds for the reader : at the moment of his first apprehension of ...
... emotional analysis that precedes poetic com- position , in the moment of composition itself the poet is most conspicuously performing as metrist . And the same principle holds for the reader : at the moment of his first apprehension of ...
Page 72
... emotion - charged natural speech , sprung rhythm's effectiveness lies in suggesting a tone of seriousness , frankness , and inti- mate emotional involvement . Like Keats's terminal trochees , it transmits an illusion of a total , if one ...
... emotion - charged natural speech , sprung rhythm's effectiveness lies in suggesting a tone of seriousness , frankness , and inti- mate emotional involvement . Like Keats's terminal trochees , it transmits an illusion of a total , if one ...
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... emotional shift by which the speaker enables him- self to take a new or altered or enlarged view of his subject . The standard way of constructing a Petrarchan sonnet is to project the subject in the first quatrain ; to develop or ...
... emotional shift by which the speaker enables him- self to take a new or altered or enlarged view of his subject . The standard way of constructing a Petrarchan sonnet is to project the subject in the first quatrain ; to develop or ...
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