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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 17
Page 117
... ment helps transmit a very different effect , an effect of strenuousness , of an energy that disdains contain- ment , bursting through the line endings as if they constituted impious bars to liberty . In the same way , the term " heroic ...
... ment helps transmit a very different effect , an effect of strenuousness , of an energy that disdains contain- ment , bursting through the line endings as if they constituted impious bars to liberty . In the same way , the term " heroic ...
Page 137
... ment of stresses are often called Hudibrastic couplets in reference to their use by Samuel Butler in Hudibras ( 1662-1678 ) : When gospel - trumpeter , surrounded With long - eared rout , to battle sounded ; And pulpit , drum ...
... ment of stresses are often called Hudibrastic couplets in reference to their use by Samuel Butler in Hudibras ( 1662-1678 ) : When gospel - trumpeter , surrounded With long - eared rout , to battle sounded ; And pulpit , drum ...
Page 183
... ment as well . We notice too that it is only the conclud- ing couplet that is wholly independent and complete grammatically : it is the only predication in the poem which elides no verbs . The student of the se- mantics and logic of ...
... ment as well . We notice too that it is only the conclud- ing couplet that is wholly independent and complete grammatically : it is the only predication in the poem which elides no verbs . The student of the se- mantics and logic of ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 20 |
Metrical Variations | 36 |
Copyright | |
9 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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