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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... metrist . And the same principle holds for the reader : at the moment of his first apprehension of the poem he functions less as semanticist than as a more or less unwitting prosodist . It is the purpose of this book to help the reader ...
... metrist . And the same principle holds for the reader : at the moment of his first apprehension of the poem he functions less as semanticist than as a more or less unwitting prosodist . It is the purpose of this book to help the reader ...
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... metrist , and we are not surprised that he has fully mastered this device . Here he exploits it twice in succession in " In Memory of W. B. Yeats " : Intellectual disgrace Stares from / every human face , And the seas of pity lie Locked ...
... metrist , and we are not surprised that he has fully mastered this device . Here he exploits it twice in succession in " In Memory of W. B. Yeats " : Intellectual disgrace Stares from / every human face , And the seas of pity lie Locked ...
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... metrist like Donald Hall ; in " Christmas Eve at Whitneyville , 1955 , " addressing his father , he does so : Tonight you lie in Whitneyville again , Near where you lived , and near the woods or farms Which Eli Whitney settled with the ...
... metrist like Donald Hall ; in " Christmas Eve at Whitneyville , 1955 , " addressing his father , he does so : Tonight you lie in Whitneyville again , Near where you lived , and near the woods or farms Which Eli Whitney settled with 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