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 114
... organization , on the other hand , has been found most appropriate for the enactment of dense and closely ... organized into stanzas without it . Rhyme is a much more com- plicated matter than it appears to be , for it often in- volves ...
... organization , on the other hand , has been found most appropriate for the enactment of dense and closely ... organized into stanzas without it . Rhyme is a much more com- plicated matter than it appears to be , for it often in- volves ...
Page 136
... organization , it is well to begin with these simplest stanzaic elements . The most rudimentary sort of stanzaic organization is the couplet , two lines of any length rhyming aa . Couplets whose lines are of the same length in feet are ...
... organization , it is well to begin with these simplest stanzaic elements . The most rudimentary sort of stanzaic organization is the couplet , two lines of any length rhyming aa . Couplets whose lines are of the same length in feet are ...
Page 191
... organization . This last is indeed highly artificial and conventional , for when we speak not in poems but " naturally " or colloquially , we do not usually take care to organize what we are uttering logically : we speak not in para ...
... organization . This last is indeed highly artificial and conventional , for when we speak not in poems but " naturally " or colloquially , we do not usually take care to organize what we are uttering logically : we speak not in para ...
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