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 10
... emphasis with which a syllable is spoken - either aloud or silently - relative to the emphasis received by contiguous syllables . But to call stress " emphasis " is not to define it , and dis- agreement about the nature of stress is ...
... emphasis with which a syllable is spoken - either aloud or silently - relative to the emphasis received by contiguous syllables . But to call stress " emphasis " is not to define it , and dis- agreement about the nature of stress is ...
Page 76
... emphasize even further the force of the accent that resides in them . The over - all organization of materials tends to ... emphasis would be counterpointed . Old English versification presents a delusive air of simplicity : 76 PART ONE ...
... emphasize even further the force of the accent that resides in them . The over - all organization of materials tends to ... emphasis would be counterpointed . Old English versification presents a delusive air of simplicity : 76 PART ONE ...
Page 178
... emphasis will occur in exactly the " lightest " and weakest part of the stanza ; he reserves the weighty , emphatic ... emphasized , he moves 178 PART TWO POETIC FORM.
... emphasis will occur in exactly the " lightest " and weakest part of the stanza ; he reserves the weighty , emphatic ... emphasized , he moves 178 PART TWO POETIC FORM.
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