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 71
... sprung rhythm " is perhaps best understood by assuming that the poet working in sprung rhythm is composing almost as if the spondee were a base rather than a substitute foot . As Harold Whitehall has said of sprung rhythm , “ Its ...
... sprung rhythm " is perhaps best understood by assuming that the poet working in sprung rhythm is composing almost as if the spondee were a base rather than a substitute foot . As Harold Whitehall has said of sprung rhythm , “ Its ...
Page 72
... sprung rhythm is common in nursery rhymes . A good example is One , two , Buckle my shoe . where the first line is in sprung , the second in “ run- ning " rhythm . In March dust , April showers Bring forth May flowers . ... both lines ...
... sprung rhythm is common in nursery rhymes . A good example is One , two , Buckle my shoe . where the first line is in sprung , the second in “ run- ning " rhythm . In March dust , April showers Bring forth May flowers . ... both lines ...
Page 73
... sprung rhythm justifies itself . It is hard to avoid concluding , however , that sprung rhythm is a limited and local , indeed a parochial , prosodic technique . The fact that it is associated with Hopkins alone rather than with a ...
... sprung rhythm justifies itself . It is hard to avoid concluding , however , that sprung rhythm is a limited and local , indeed a parochial , prosodic technique . The fact that it is associated with Hopkins alone rather than with a ...
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