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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... tends to produce a pleasant effect , but metrical theorists disagree vigorously about the reason for the universal popularity of metered com- positions . According to some theorists ( mostly rational- ists ) , meter is pleasant because ...
... tends to produce a pleasant effect , but metrical theorists disagree vigorously about the reason for the universal popularity of metered com- positions . According to some theorists ( mostly rational- ists ) , meter is pleasant because ...
Page 75
... tends to break them down into smaller and presumably more manageable units ( two threes ; or fours and threes , as in ballad stanza ) . A long series of hexameters is significantly the metrical mode of the French , rather than the ...
... tends to break them down into smaller and presumably more manageable units ( two threes ; or fours and threes , as in ballad stanza ) . A long series of hexameters is significantly the metrical mode of the French , rather than the ...
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... tends to efface what the rhyme scheme tends to assert . Three lines of any length ending with the same rhyme word are called triplets , or , interchangably , tercets . It is probably better to use tercet only to dis- tinguish three ...
... tends to efface what the rhyme scheme tends to assert . Three lines of any length ending with the same rhyme word are called triplets , or , interchangably , tercets . It is probably better to use tercet only to dis- tinguish three ...
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