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 41
... rhythmical equivalent of the speed with which the wave flings itself up the sloping sands . And in line 4 the return to the regularity of unvaried iambic meter after these suggestive variations emphasizes rhythmically in this context ...
... rhythmical equivalent of the speed with which the wave flings itself up the sloping sands . And in line 4 the return to the regularity of unvaried iambic meter after these suggestive variations emphasizes rhythmically in this context ...
Page 105
... rhythmical garment , not one simply imported without alteration from the very different tonalities of the British language , Williams asserted : " We must break down the line , the sentence , to get at the unit of the measure in order ...
... rhythmical garment , not one simply imported without alteration from the very different tonalities of the British language , Williams asserted : " We must break down the line , the sentence , to get at the unit of the measure in order ...
Page 196
... rhythmical meaning possible . We can consider , for example , the rhythmical treatment of line 8 , the line which introduces us to the exhausted and no longer interested Bertram . By inverting the syntax of the initial clause and ...
... rhythmical meaning possible . We can consider , for example , the rhythmical treatment of line 8 , the line which introduces us to the exhausted and no longer interested Bertram . By inverting the syntax of the initial clause and ...
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