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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... feet from one to eight . By convention , the feet are conceived of as roughly of the same kind , although variations , produced by the " substitution " of different feet , are not only permis- sible but desirable so long as these ...
... feet from one to eight . By convention , the feet are conceived of as roughly of the same kind , although variations , produced by the " substitution " of different feet , are not only permis- sible but desirable so long as these ...
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... feet are called - misleadingly— ascending or rising feet ; trochaic and dactylic are known as descending or falling . A poem written pre- vailingly in iambic or anapestic feet is said to be in ascending or rising rhythm : the rhythm is ...
... feet are called - misleadingly— ascending or rising feet ; trochaic and dactylic are known as descending or falling . A poem written pre- vailingly in iambic or anapestic feet is said to be in ascending or rising rhythm : the rhythm is ...
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... feet . We thus designate the meter as iambic pentameter . Terms for other line lengths are : one foot two feet three feet four feet six feet monometer dimeter trimeter tetrameter hexameter heptameter seven feet eight feet octameter A ...
... feet . We thus designate the meter as iambic pentameter . Terms for other line lengths are : one foot two feet three feet four feet six feet monometer dimeter trimeter tetrameter hexameter heptameter seven feet eight feet octameter A ...
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