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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... initial trochee here is enlisted on behalf of horror compli- cated by overtones of tenderness and sympathy . An illusion of sheer physical power , on the other hand , is the effect of the initial trochee which rein- forces the active ...
... initial trochee here is enlisted on behalf of horror compli- cated by overtones of tenderness and sympathy . An illusion of sheer physical power , on the other hand , is the effect of the initial trochee which rein- forces the active ...
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... initial trochee which is made to coincide with an active verb by comparing one of Eliot's passages with the original to which it alludes . Goldsmith's When lovely woman stoops to folly , And finds too late that men betray remains within ...
... initial trochee which is made to coincide with an active verb by comparing one of Eliot's passages with the original to which it alludes . Goldsmith's When lovely woman stoops to folly , And finds too late that men betray remains within ...
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... initial trochee when it coin- cides with different syntactical elements . The initial verbal trochee of line 3 ( Look'd at ) functions , like Mil- ton's , to transmit an effect of sudden vigor ; but the initial modifying trochee of the ...
... initial trochee when it coin- cides with different syntactical elements . The initial verbal trochee of line 3 ( Look'd at ) functions , like Mil- ton's , to transmit an effect of sudden vigor ; but the initial modifying trochee of 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