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 51
... trochaic reversal in line 2 ; and the heart's fullness naturally takes a spondaic rhythm in line 3 : At once a voice arose among The bleak / twigs ov / erhead / In a / full - heart / ed ev / ensong / Of joy illimited . But lest we ...
... trochaic reversal in line 2 ; and the heart's fullness naturally takes a spondaic rhythm in line 3 : At once a voice arose among The bleak / twigs ov / erhead / In a / full - heart / ed ev / ensong / Of joy illimited . But lest we ...
Page 59
... trochaic substitution occurs : in the first position , in a medial position , and at the end . In the first position trochaic substitution is ex- tremely common - indeed , this one variation is the most common in all English poetry . It ...
... trochaic substitution occurs : in the first position , in a medial position , and at the end . In the first position trochaic substitution is ex- tremely common - indeed , this one variation is the most common in all English poetry . It ...
Page 67
... trochaic substitution is fairly frequent , although not as common as at the beginning of lines . It is often used like the medial spondee to re- inforce images of sudden action , as in Book IV of Paradise Lost , where speaking jointly ...
... trochaic substitution is fairly frequent , although not as common as at the beginning of lines . It is often used like the medial spondee to re- inforce images of sudden action , as in Book IV of Paradise Lost , where speaking jointly ...
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