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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... spondaic substitution : Just writes to make his barrenness appear , And strains from hard- / bound brains , / eight lines / a year . And the assonance which links strains , brains , and eight associates the three words rhetorically as ...
... spondaic substitution : Just writes to make his barrenness appear , And strains from hard- / bound brains , / eight lines / a year . And the assonance which links strains , brains , and eight associates the three words rhetorically as ...
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... spondaic substitution to return to a very pronounced iambic regularity to re - establish the metrical norm after these excursions into spondaic difficulty and strain . For ex- ample : So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog or steep , through ...
... spondaic substitution to return to a very pronounced iambic regularity to re - establish the metrical norm after these excursions into spondaic difficulty and strain . For ex- ample : So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog or steep , through ...
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... spondaic rhythm in line 3 : At once a voice arose among The bleak / twigs ov / erhead / In a / full - heart / ed ev / ensong / Of joy illimited . But lest we forget that spondaic substitution is as rich an effect in comic as in serious ...
... spondaic rhythm in line 3 : At once a voice arose among The bleak / twigs ov / erhead / In a / full - heart / ed ev / ensong / Of joy illimited . But lest we forget that spondaic substitution is as rich an effect in comic as in serious ...
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