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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... fixed forms ; although accumulations of three quatrains are popular , the conventions of such ar- rangements attach to the quatrain rather than to any twelve - line conception . And in English we have no fixed stanzaic form longer than ...
... fixed forms ; although accumulations of three quatrains are popular , the conventions of such ar- rangements attach to the quatrain rather than to any twelve - line conception . And in English we have no fixed stanzaic form longer than ...
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Paul Fussell. poet toward certain fixed forms and away from others . Knowing what the very form implies in and of itself , regardless of what is done with it , is always one of the poet's guides . We have already seen that the eight ...
Paul Fussell. poet toward certain fixed forms and away from others . Knowing what the very form implies in and of itself , regardless of what is done with it , is always one of the poet's guides . We have already seen that the eight ...
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... Form . " The poet's at- titude toward fixed metrical and stanzaic forms , Cunningham reminds us , reflects his general orienta- tion toward authority , hierarchy , and history ; and the contemporary poet , anxious to escape from the fixed ...
... Form . " The poet's at- titude toward fixed metrical and stanzaic forms , Cunningham reminds us , reflects his general orienta- tion toward authority , hierarchy , and history ; and the contemporary poet , anxious to escape from the fixed ...
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