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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... pattern of written words before us and how much " in " the reader's mind and musculature . We can say , however , that meter inheres in more or less regular linguistic rhythm ; or we can say that talk about meter is a way of describing ...
... pattern of written words before us and how much " in " the reader's mind and musculature . We can say , however , that meter inheres in more or less regular linguistic rhythm ; or we can say that talk about meter is a way of describing ...
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... pattern which presumably lies behind the actual rhythms of the words . As Joseph Malof has said recently : “ One kind of energy in poetic language comes from the wrestling of abstract patterns with actual prose rhythms . The 32 PART ONE ...
... pattern which presumably lies behind the actual rhythms of the words . As Joseph Malof has said recently : “ One kind of energy in poetic language comes from the wrestling of abstract patterns with actual prose rhythms . The 32 PART ONE ...
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... pattern of the meter is so nearly the same as the stress pattern of the syntax and logic that there is nothing much for the meter to interplay with . The same must be true for all meters depending on patterns of repeated or parallel ...
... pattern of the meter is so nearly the same as the stress pattern of the syntax and logic that there is nothing much for the meter to interplay with . The same must be true for all meters depending on patterns of repeated or parallel ...
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