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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... less as semanticist than as a more or less unwitting prosodist . It is the purpose of this book to help the reader to become , as prosodist , less unwitting . When Boswell asked Johnson , " What is poetry ? " Johnson answered : " Why ...
... less as semanticist than as a more or less unwitting prosodist . It is the purpose of this book to help the reader to become , as prosodist , less unwitting . When Boswell asked Johnson , " What is poetry ? " Johnson answered : " Why ...
Page 70
... less of a poetic illusionist assembling an artifact than that of a simple , straightforward speaker whose open commitment to what he is saying is so uncomplicated by doubts or irony that it would be a distinct discourtesy not to take ...
... less of a poetic illusionist assembling an artifact than that of a simple , straightforward speaker whose open commitment to what he is saying is so uncomplicated by doubts or irony that it would be a distinct discourtesy not to take ...
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... less unequipped to do more . Either to return to rules , more or less arbitrary in their delimitations , or to go ahead ; to invent other forms by using a new measure . " This " new measure ” ( a meter " consonant with our day ...
... less unequipped to do more . Either to return to rules , more or less arbitrary in their delimitations , or to go ahead ; to invent other forms by using a new measure . " This " new measure ” ( a meter " consonant with our day ...
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