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 92
... principle than what works on the reader : the art of poetry is the art of illusion , and the illusion that succeeds in de- lighting and illuminating the subtle and trained reader is what we want , no matter how many “ rules ” are ...
... principle than what works on the reader : the art of poetry is the art of illusion , and the illusion that succeeds in de- lighting and illuminating the subtle and trained reader is what we want , no matter how many “ rules ” are ...
Page 149
... principle , the principle of enclosure or return , as in the limerick ( aabba ) , where the closure of the final sense is coincident with the sound closure echoing the initial rhymes . The structure is analogous to a musical structure ...
... principle , the principle of enclosure or return , as in the limerick ( aabba ) , where the closure of the final sense is coincident with the sound closure echoing the initial rhymes . The structure is analogous to a musical structure ...
Page 163
... principle or set of principles , whatever they may be , that determine the line . . . . We have lost the repetitive harmony of the old tradition , and we have not established a new . We have written to vary or violate the old line , for ...
... principle or set of principles , whatever they may be , that determine the line . . . . We have lost the repetitive harmony of the old tradition , and we have not established a new . We have written to vary or violate the old line , for ...
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