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 49
... Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness , Thou foster - child of silence and / slow time./ The end of the line attracts the Keatsian spondee also Metrical Variations 49.
... Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness , Thou foster - child of silence and / slow time./ The end of the line attracts the Keatsian spondee also Metrical Variations 49.
Page 123
... thou appear untouched by solemn thought , Thy nature is not therefore less divine : Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year ; And worshipp'st at the temple's inner shrine , God being with thee when we know it not . And sometimes the ...
... thou appear untouched by solemn thought , Thy nature is not therefore less divine : Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year ; And worshipp'st at the temple's inner shrine , God being with thee when we know it not . And sometimes the ...
Page 153
... Thou'st met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem : Το spare thee now is past my pow'r , Thou bonnie gem . But more often the bobs are used as fillips of impudent irony . In " Holy Willie's Prayer ...
... Thou'st met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem : Το spare thee now is past my pow'r , Thou bonnie gem . But more often the bobs are used as fillips of impudent irony . In " Holy Willie's Prayer ...
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