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 77
... [ iambic pentameter ] line to lead a double life , to qualify for strict iambic pentameter through such devices as ' promotion ' of a medial stress to the rank of a full one , and yet to assert beneath the surface the four strong beats of ...
... [ iambic pentameter ] line to lead a double life , to qualify for strict iambic pentameter through such devices as ' promotion ' of a medial stress to the rank of a full one , and yet to assert beneath the surface the four strong beats of ...
Page 83
... iambic pentameter is going to become , for whatever ultimate reason , the staple line of the Modern English period ... iambic tetrameter or pentameter line a vehicle for wit , shock , and ecstasy by a bold shifting or addition of ...
... iambic pentameter is going to become , for whatever ultimate reason , the staple line of the Modern English period ... iambic tetrameter or pentameter line a vehicle for wit , shock , and ecstasy by a bold shifting or addition of ...
Page 98
... iambic pentameter line followed by two iambic tetrameters , all exquisitely varied from the iambic base to reinforce the sense : I think / I could turn / and live / with an / imals , / they are / so pla / cid and self / -contain'd , / I ...
... iambic pentameter line followed by two iambic tetrameters , all exquisitely varied from the iambic base to reinforce the sense : I think / I could turn / and live / with an / imals , / they are / so pla / cid and self / -contain'd , / I ...
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