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 139
... triplets , or , interchangably , tercets . It is probably better to use tercet only to dis- tinguish three lines organized other than by a thrice- repeated rhyme . Thus this is a triplet : Whenas in silks my Julia goes , Then , then ...
... triplets , or , interchangably , tercets . It is probably better to use tercet only to dis- tinguish three lines organized other than by a thrice- repeated rhyme . Thus this is a triplet : Whenas in silks my Julia goes , Then , then ...
Page 140
... triplets are sometimes used in heroic couplet poems to mark moments of climax or special pressure , and often the last line of the triplet swells to an alexandrine , as if the materials were stretching their container and almost ...
... triplets are sometimes used in heroic couplet poems to mark moments of climax or special pressure , and often the last line of the triplet swells to an alexandrine , as if the materials were stretching their container and almost ...
Page 207
... triplet , 139-41 Van Dyke , Henry , 37-38 , 39 Venus and Adonis stanza , 152 , 157 , 161 , 163 Waller , Edmund , 83 ; On a Girdle , 143 Warton , Joseph , To Fancy , 99 , 100 Watts , Isaac , Day of Judgment , 146 ; When I Survey , 142 ...
... triplet , 139-41 Van Dyke , Henry , 37-38 , 39 Venus and Adonis stanza , 152 , 157 , 161 , 163 Waller , Edmund , 83 ; On a Girdle , 143 Warton , Joseph , To Fancy , 99 , 100 Watts , Isaac , Day of Judgment , 146 ; When I Survey , 142 ...
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