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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Paul Fussell. 1 The Nature of Meter etic meter is a prime physical and emotional constituent of poetic meaning . The great monuments of perception in Eng- lish poetry ... nature , in the arrangement of metric and pattern , The Nature of ...
Paul Fussell. 1 The Nature of Meter etic meter is a prime physical and emotional constituent of poetic meaning . The great monuments of perception in Eng- lish poetry ... nature , in the arrangement of metric and pattern , The Nature of ...
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... natural pause at the end of each line . Writing syllabic poems is difficult and reading them is fun , in a theoretical kind of way . But it is really stress that ... nature of accentual meter in English we should pause The Nature of Meter 9.
... natural pause at the end of each line . Writing syllabic poems is difficult and reading them is fun , in a theoretical kind of way . But it is really stress that ... nature of accentual meter in English we should pause The Nature of Meter 9.
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... nature of the English lan- guage , we should not expect the form to produce any memorable poems . Here is a haiku translated by Har- old G. Henderson from the original by Taniguchi Buson : The short night is through : on the hairy ...
... nature of the English lan- guage , we should not expect the form to produce any memorable poems . Here is a haiku translated by Har- old G. Henderson from the original by Taniguchi Buson : The short night is through : on the hairy ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 20 |
Metrical Variations | 36 |
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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