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 118
... formal mode than the heroic couplet , but in his Irene , Samuel Johnson writes end - stopped blank verse lines which generate a much more formal atmosphere than the run - on rhymed couplets of Keats . The decision a poet makes about ...
... formal mode than the heroic couplet , but in his Irene , Samuel Johnson writes end - stopped blank verse lines which generate a much more formal atmosphere than the run - on rhymed couplets of Keats . The decision a poet makes about ...
Page 167
... formal competence , let alone formal excellence , everywhere we turn . We will not even expect to find it in all the poems of a highly regarded poet : certain of Shakespeare's sonnets are as bad as certain of Wordsworth's failed poems ...
... formal competence , let alone formal excellence , everywhere we turn . We will not even expect to find it in all the poems of a highly regarded poet : certain of Shakespeare's sonnets are as bad as certain of Wordsworth's failed poems ...
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... formal prob- lem is very close to the prose writer's , for the poetic line , regardless of its degree of syntactical integrity , is like a prose sentence , or an opera , or a footrace in being an experience in time and in sharing in the ...
... formal prob- lem is very close to the prose writer's , for the poetic line , regardless of its degree of syntactical integrity , is like a prose sentence , or an opera , or a footrace in being an experience in time and in sharing in the ...
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