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 11
... number of syllables varies from line to line . In the following lines by Yeats , for example , we find four stresses per line , although the number of syllables varies from seven to nine : Why should not old men be mad ? Some have known ...
... number of syllables varies from line to line . In the following lines by Yeats , for example , we find four stresses per line , although the number of syllables varies from seven to nine : Why should not old men be mad ? Some have known ...
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... number of syllables . Although the technical terms for various kinds of con- tractions are not essential , it is useful to know them . We distinguish two basic kinds of contractions , syn- aeresis ( sometimes called synaloepha ) and ...
... number of syllables . Although the technical terms for various kinds of con- tractions are not essential , it is useful to know them . We distinguish two basic kinds of contractions , syn- aeresis ( sometimes called synaloepha ) and ...
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... number of either stresses or feet and becomes the number of syllables . Metrical theorists and dogmatists like Edward Bysshe , Richard Bentley , and Henry Pemberton advocated a rigid regularity in the heroic line , and minor poets like ...
... number of either stresses or feet and becomes the number of syllables . Metrical theorists and dogmatists like Edward Bysshe , Richard Bentley , and Henry Pemberton advocated a rigid regularity in the heroic line , and minor poets like ...
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