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 115
... shape ; it often apes some other material - most often stone - and it is conspicuously fragile and imper- manent . Alabaster , on the other hand , must be worked from the outside : it must be incised , and incision im- plies a sharpness ...
... shape ; it often apes some other material - most often stone - and it is conspicuously fragile and imper- manent . Alabaster , on the other hand , must be worked from the outside : it must be incised , and incision im- plies a sharpness ...
Page 135
... shape of gen- eral psychic experience . The shape which a poetic stanza cuts in time was once , before the widespread use of printing , appre- hended by the ear alone . In later times , the reader's conception of stanzaic form has been ...
... shape of gen- eral psychic experience . The shape which a poetic stanza cuts in time was once , before the widespread use of printing , appre- hended by the ear alone . In later times , the reader's conception of stanzaic form has been ...
Page 174
... shape necessarily makes loud structural claims . The difference is that this poem puts its money where its mouth - or shape- is : it attains form rather than pseudo - form , and its reward is that it has become a permanent poem . It is ...
... shape necessarily makes loud structural claims . The difference is that this poem puts its money where its mouth - or shape- is : it attains form rather than pseudo - form , and its reward is that it has become a permanent poem . It is ...
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