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 84
... thing more strange , than on Nile's slime , the Sun E'er bred , or all which into Noah's Ark came : A thing which would have pos'd Adam to name : Notable in Pope's version is an impulse toward both stress regularity and greater line ...
... thing more strange , than on Nile's slime , the Sun E'er bred , or all which into Noah's Ark came : A thing which would have pos'd Adam to name : Notable in Pope's version is an impulse toward both stress regularity and greater line ...
Page 117
... thing only when the thing preceding it is entirely finished . The view is analytic : the materials are being accumulated , like mosaic , piece by piece . But in the Milton passage the enjamb- ment helps transmit a very different effect ...
... thing only when the thing preceding it is entirely finished . The view is analytic : the materials are being accumulated , like mosaic , piece by piece . But in the Milton passage the enjamb- ment helps transmit a very different effect ...
Page 132
... things- For skies of couple - colour as a brinded cow ; For rose - moles all in stipple upon trout that swim ; Fresh ... thing that takes place in the white space between the two parts is an ascent to a slightly higher plateau of ...
... things- For skies of couple - colour as a brinded cow ; For rose - moles all in stipple upon trout that swim ; Fresh ... thing that takes place in the white space between the two parts is an ascent to a slightly higher plateau of ...
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