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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... stress or accent is . Here again we must proceed without much more certainty than saying that stress is the vocal emphasis with which a syllable is spoken - either aloud or silently - relative to the emphasis received by contiguous ...
... stress or accent is . Here again we must proceed without much more certainty than saying that stress is the vocal emphasis with which a syllable is spoken - either aloud or silently - relative to the emphasis received by contiguous ...
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... stress meter [ i.e. , of Beowulf or Piers Plowman ] is its limited capacity for interplay . The stress pattern of the meter is so nearly the same as the stress pattern of the syntax and logic that there is nothing much for the meter to ...
... stress meter [ i.e. , of Beowulf or Piers Plowman ] is its limited capacity for interplay . The stress pattern of the meter is so nearly the same as the stress pattern of the syntax and logic that there is nothing much for the meter to ...
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... stress Old English line . And some have suggested that what we are talking about when we speak of " metrical variations " is really the line's apparent indecision about whether to adopt a four- or a five - stress structure - an ...
... stress Old English line . And some have suggested that what we are talking about when we speak of " metrical variations " is really the line's apparent indecision about whether to adopt a four- or a five - stress structure - an ...
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