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 69
... irony and derision which attends the terminal trochee when it appears in a generally skeptical context can be exploited by a skillful con- temporary metrist like Donald Hall ; in " Christmas Eve at Whitneyville , 1955 , " addressing his ...
... irony and derision which attends the terminal trochee when it appears in a generally skeptical context can be exploited by a skillful con- temporary metrist like Donald Hall ; in " Christmas Eve at Whitneyville , 1955 , " addressing his ...
Page 115
... irony is the result . A similar sort of irony results from the rhyming of time and rhyme — or ac- tually of no loss of time with ' sculpture ' of rhyme . The sound similarity implies a semantic similarity between fast manufacturing and ...
... irony is the result . A similar sort of irony results from the rhyming of time and rhyme — or ac- tually of no loss of time with ' sculpture ' of rhyme . The sound similarity implies a semantic similarity between fast manufacturing and ...
Page 184
... irony which the subsequent monometers will echo and parallel . The irony generated from this first monometer results from the opposition between the brevity of the line , on the one hand , and , on the other , the hopes for longevity ...
... irony which the subsequent monometers will echo and parallel . The irony generated from this first monometer results from the opposition between the brevity of the line , on the one hand , and , on the other , the hopes for longevity ...
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