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 118
... poet makes about enjambment , whether he is rhyming or not , will tend to imply his sense of relation to inherited stichic tradition , for the tradition in stichic poetry is that a high degree of line integrity prevail . By his ...
... poet makes about enjambment , whether he is rhyming or not , will tend to imply his sense of relation to inherited stichic tradition , for the tradition in stichic poetry is that a high degree of line integrity prevail . By his ...
Page 161
... poet's guides . We have already seen that the eight- eenth - century poet tended to eschew the sonnet ; he did this in the way that the nineteenth - century poet avoided the closed heroic couplet , or the twentieth- century poet avoids ...
... poet's guides . We have already seen that the eight- eenth - century poet tended to eschew the sonnet ; he did this in the way that the nineteenth - century poet avoided the closed heroic couplet , or the twentieth- century poet avoids ...
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Paul Fussell. something important has happened to the poet's pos- ture toward received poetic forms . What it is has been suggested recently by J. V. Cun- ningham in " The Problem of Form . " The poet's at- titude toward fixed metrical ...
Paul Fussell. something important has happened to the poet's pos- ture toward received poetic forms . What it is has been suggested recently by J. V. Cun- ningham in " The Problem of Form . " The poet's at- titude toward fixed metrical ...
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