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 14
... seem always to invite defeat from the sheer force of English accent , so attempts to organize English lines according ... seems to suggest that a meter customary in a given language has become customary precisely because it measures the ...
... seem always to invite defeat from the sheer force of English accent , so attempts to organize English lines according ... seems to suggest that a meter customary in a given language has become customary precisely because it measures the ...
Page 131
... seems to encounter the difficulty familiar to all poets who have tried to produce English hexameters in sequence ... seem to occur at excessively short intervals , and we get the il- lusion of being carried along too rapidly for the as ...
... seems to encounter the difficulty familiar to all poets who have tried to produce English hexameters in sequence ... seem to occur at excessively short intervals , and we get the il- lusion of being carried along too rapidly for the as ...
Page 147
... seems less successful : there seems to be a kind of cru- dity and overinsistence in the excessively weighted final line , although the crudity may really be the effect of simply an insufficiently varied metric : All thoughts , all ...
... seems less successful : there seems to be a kind of cru- dity and overinsistence in the excessively weighted final line , although the crudity may really be the effect of simply an insufficiently varied metric : All thoughts , all ...
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