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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... syllables . While in syllabic meter only the syllables are counted , in accentual meter only the accents are . Syllables may vary in number per line , it being as- sumed that three or four short syllables can be uttered in the same time ...
... syllables . While in syllabic meter only the syllables are counted , in accentual meter only the accents are . Syllables may vary in number per line , it being as- sumed that three or four short syllables can be uttered in the same time ...
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... syllables , and quarter or half notes to represent stressed syllables of varying weights . Caesuras are sometimes indicated by musical rests of various lengths . Musical scansion does have the advantage of representing more accurately ...
... syllables , and quarter or half notes to represent stressed syllables of varying weights . Caesuras are sometimes indicated by musical rests of various lengths . Musical scansion does have the advantage of representing more accurately ...
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... syllables , regularly , and for particular effects any number of weak or slack syllables may be used . It [ a sprung- rhythm foot ] has one stress , which falls on the only syllable , if there is only one , or , if there are more , then ...
... syllables , regularly , and for particular effects any number of weak or slack syllables may be used . It [ a sprung- rhythm foot ] has one stress , which falls on the only syllable , if there is only one , or , if there are more , then ...
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