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 117
... heroic couplet " does not describe anything very precisely unless we indicate also whether the couplets are end - stopped or run - on . Despite very occasional enjambment , as in " The Rape of the Lock , " This Nymph , to the ...
... heroic couplet " does not describe anything very precisely unless we indicate also whether the couplets are end - stopped or run - on . Despite very occasional enjambment , as in " The Rape of the Lock , " This Nymph , to the ...
Page 118
... heroic couplets " of Keats , on the other hand , bear very little resemblance to Pope's , or to Chaucer's , or to ... couplet is the degree of enjambment . It is commonly thought that blank verse is a more in- formal mode than the heroic ...
... heroic couplets " of Keats , on the other hand , bear very little resemblance to Pope's , or to Chaucer's , or to ... couplet is the degree of enjambment . It is commonly thought that blank verse is a more in- formal mode than the heroic ...
Page 156
... heroic couplets . It is associated with the narration of high and noble matters . Chaucer used it in " Troilus and ... couplet over- laps the initial quatrain , and partly because the effect of the final separated couplet is prepared for ...
... heroic couplets . It is associated with the narration of high and noble matters . Chaucer used it in " Troilus and ... couplet over- laps the initial quatrain , and partly because the effect of the final separated couplet is prepared for ...
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