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 116
... enjambment , or run - on lines . As he composes each line he must decide whether its nature is such that it should remain as a distinct unit - should ex- hibit what we can call " line integrity " -or whether it should " run on " to the ...
... enjambment , or run - on lines . As he composes each line he must decide whether its nature is such that it should remain as a distinct unit - should ex- hibit what we can call " line integrity " -or whether it should " run on " to the ...
Page 117
... enjambment , as in " The Rape of the Lock , " This Nymph , to the destruction of mankind , Nourished two Locks , which graceful hung behind In equal curls , and well conspired to deck With shining ringlets the smooth iv'ry neck , Pope ...
... enjambment , as in " The Rape of the Lock , " This Nymph , to the destruction of mankind , Nourished two Locks , which graceful hung behind In equal curls , and well conspired to deck With shining ringlets the smooth iv'ry neck , Pope ...
Page 118
... enjambment in " Endymion " : Full in the middle of this pleasantness There stood a marble altar , with a tress Of flowers budded newly ; and the dew Had taken fairy phantasies to strew Daisies upon the sacred sward last eve . . . . More ...
... enjambment in " Endymion " : Full in the middle of this pleasantness There stood a marble altar , with a tress Of flowers budded newly ; and the dew Had taken fairy phantasies to strew Daisies upon the sacred sward last eve . . . . More ...
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