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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... sort of difference is evident to the eye . The term ' iambic foot ' has the same sort of status as the term ' round face . ' " Although we will probably never meet a really pure spondee or pyrrhic , in which the two syllables are of ...
... sort of difference is evident to the eye . The term ' iambic foot ' has the same sort of status as the term ' round face . ' " Although we will probably never meet a really pure spondee or pyrrhic , in which the two syllables are of ...
Page 66
... and both coincide with nouns , one at the opening of the first line , one at the opening of the last . The two substantive trochees might be said to function as a sort of envelope of certainty , a sort of fixed 66 PART ONE POETIC METER.
... and both coincide with nouns , one at the opening of the first line , one at the opening of the last . The two substantive trochees might be said to function as a sort of envelope of certainty , a sort of fixed 66 PART ONE POETIC METER.
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Paul Fussell. sort of envelope of certainty , a sort of fixed container suggestive of certainty and finality . If we are suffi- ciently schooled in the conventions of metrical varia- tions - if we recall what Milton and Marvell have done ...
Paul Fussell. sort of envelope of certainty , a sort of fixed container suggestive of certainty and finality . If we are suffi- ciently schooled in the conventions of metrical varia- tions - if we recall what Milton and Marvell have done ...
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