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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Paul Fussell. 2 The Technique of Scansion Scansion , cansion , which can be defined as any system of representing by visual symbols more or less conventional poetic rhythms for purposes of metrical analysis and criticism , does not make ...
Paul Fussell. 2 The Technique of Scansion Scansion , cansion , which can be defined as any system of representing by visual symbols more or less conventional poetic rhythms for purposes of metrical analysis and criticism , does not make ...
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... scansion , which is the kind we shall be using , the reader affixes the symbol to syl- lables which , in their context , are unstressed ; he uses the symbol to indicate syllables which , in context , are stressed . A division between ...
... scansion , which is the kind we shall be using , the reader affixes the symbol to syl- lables which , in their context , are unstressed ; he uses the symbol to indicate syllables which , in context , are stressed . A division between ...
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... scansion offer themselves when we permit a scansion to register the metrical as well as the actual rhythm : there is first the general difficulty of knowing what the dominant meter of a line is and the temptation to simplify mat- ters ...
... scansion offer themselves when we permit a scansion to register the metrical as well as the actual rhythm : there is first the general difficulty of knowing what the dominant meter of a line is and the temptation to simplify mat- ters ...
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