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 38
... regularity only to depart from it expressively . When he does compose a metrically regular line it is not because the metrical scheme tells him to , but because something in the matter he is embodying impels him toward a momentary ...
... regularity only to depart from it expressively . When he does compose a metrically regular line it is not because the metrical scheme tells him to , but because something in the matter he is embodying impels him toward a momentary ...
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... regularity : iambic pentameter exerts its own kind of beguilements . In pentameter there is a universe of difference between a hapless or automatic regularity and an expressive one ; between , say , the regularity of these lines from ...
... regularity : iambic pentameter exerts its own kind of beguilements . In pentameter there is a universe of difference between a hapless or automatic regularity and an expressive one ; between , say , the regularity of these lines from ...
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Paul Fussell. poem on a note of calm regularity , a regularity sug- gesting , not without a touch of melancholy for the glory that Adam and Eve have lost forever , a more rational , perhaps a more human , kind of hope : Some nat / ural ...
Paul Fussell. poem on a note of calm regularity , a regularity sug- gesting , not without a touch of melancholy for the glory that Adam and Eve have lost forever , a more rational , perhaps a more human , kind of hope : Some nat / ural ...
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