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 116
... sense : we get a symphonic sense of flow and flux , a sort of tidal variation . Con- sider the difference in structure between the verse of Thomson's " Winter " : To thee , the patron of this first essay , The Muse , O Wilmington ...
... sense : we get a symphonic sense of flow and flux , a sort of tidal variation . Con- sider the difference in structure between the verse of Thomson's " Winter " : To thee , the patron of this first essay , The Muse , O Wilmington ...
Page 135
... sense of stanzas has become a very complex act of mediation between what our eyes see and what our inner ears hear . When we approach a short poem on the printed page , the first thing that strikes us is the general typo- graphic shape ...
... sense of stanzas has become a very complex act of mediation between what our eyes see and what our inner ears hear . When we approach a short poem on the printed page , the first thing that strikes us is the general typo- graphic shape ...
Page 195
... sense of the darkened knowledge which time will offer Jane in bruise , rose , lose , nose , soon , moon . And the ... senses , and is finally reduced to a mechanical plaything : she is like the victim of the " young man carbuncular " in ...
... sense of the darkened knowledge which time will offer Jane in bruise , rose , lose , nose , soon , moon . And the ... senses , and is finally reduced to a mechanical plaything : she is like the victim of the " young man carbuncular " in ...
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