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 12
... example from Swift's " The Beasts ' Confession to the Priest " ex- emplifies both the accentual and the syllabic limita- tions . The accents per line are four , the syllables eight ; Creatures of ev'ry Kind but ours Well comprehend ...
... example from Swift's " The Beasts ' Confession to the Priest " ex- emplifies both the accentual and the syllabic limita- tions . The accents per line are four , the syllables eight ; Creatures of ev'ry Kind but ours Well comprehend ...
Page 119
Paul Fussell. relationships , provides good examples of some of the universal problems of strophic form . The sonnet is a fourteen - line poem in iambic penta- meter : the rhyme ... example , Structural Principles : Example of the Sonnet 119.
Paul Fussell. relationships , provides good examples of some of the universal problems of strophic form . The sonnet is a fourteen - line poem in iambic penta- meter : the rhyme ... example , Structural Principles : Example of the Sonnet 119.
Page 124
... example , the ironic relation between burst and worst ) . Part of the fun resides in this very technical perfection , lavished as it is on a fairly " low " enterprise . For the contemporary reader , part of the fun also arose from ...
... example , the ironic relation between burst and worst ) . Part of the fun resides in this very technical perfection , lavished as it is on a fairly " low " enterprise . For the contemporary reader , part of the fun also arose from ...
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