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 16
... speak metrically , to present them speaking metrically is to transform them entirely from creatures of nature into creatures of art . And when it is the poet's voice that we hear speaking metri- cally , the meter announces or implies ...
... speak metrically , to present them speaking metrically is to transform them entirely from creatures of nature into creatures of art . And when it is the poet's voice that we hear speaking metri- cally , the meter announces or implies ...
Page 191
... speak not in poems but " naturally " or colloquially , we do not usually take care to organize what we are uttering logically : we speak not in para- graphs but in bursts . We do not conduct a discourse : we make remarks . And as ...
... speak not in poems but " naturally " or colloquially , we do not usually take care to organize what we are uttering logically : we speak not in para- graphs but in bursts . We do not conduct a discourse : we make remarks . And as ...
Page 197
... speak of the " tyranny " of the iambic foot might speak just as well of the tyranny of friction which enables us to run , or the tyranny of gravity which permits dancing and high - jumping to differ beautifully from walking . But ...
... speak of the " tyranny " of the iambic foot might speak just as well of the tyranny of friction which enables us to run , or the tyranny of gravity which permits dancing and high - jumping to differ beautifully from walking . But ...
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