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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... reader that the reader refuses to consider the four ' weep's as a series of sounds equally stressed ( contrast the read- er's very different treatment of King Lear's " Then kill , kill , kill , kill , kill , kill ! " ) ; instead , the ...
... reader that the reader refuses to consider the four ' weep's as a series of sounds equally stressed ( contrast the read- er's very different treatment of King Lear's " Then kill , kill , kill , kill , kill , kill ! " ) ; instead , the ...
Page 110
... reader will react when a technical something is done to him is what controls the poet's manipulation of his technique . To do something to the reader is the end of poetry : a poem is less a nota- tion on a page or a sequence of uttered ...
... reader will react when a technical something is done to him is what controls the poet's manipulation of his technique . To do something to the reader is the end of poetry : a poem is less a nota- tion on a page or a sequence of uttered ...
... reader's comfort within the conventions that makes it possible for the poem to transmit its signals at all . " The innocent eye sees nothing . " The unwitting reader finds poems " obscure . " It is the trained reader alone who fits ...
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