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 39
... expressive metri- cal variations are possible only in verse conceived in a tradition of more or less regular base rhythm : we can have no variations in entirely " free " or " cadenced " verse . The poet working in free verse has already ...
... expressive metri- cal variations are possible only in verse conceived in a tradition of more or less regular base rhythm : we can have no variations in entirely " free " or " cadenced " verse . The poet working in free verse has already ...
Page 82
... expressive variations made itself felt . Ironically , the regularists , by mistak- ing the whole aesthetic premise of meter , made their own unwitting contribution to the great English tra- dition of expressive metrical variations . As ...
... expressive variations made itself felt . Ironically , the regularists , by mistak- ing the whole aesthetic premise of meter , made their own unwitting contribution to the great English tra- dition of expressive metrical variations . As ...
Page 84
... expressive variations . This lust for regularity- " smoothness , " the age was pleased to call it - seems to constitute one expression of the orderly and rational- istic impulses of the period . Although the best poets of the early ...
... expressive variations . This lust for regularity- " smoothness , " the age was pleased to call it - seems to constitute one expression of the orderly and rational- istic impulses of the period . Although the best poets of the early ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 20 |
Metrical Variations | 36 |
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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