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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... unstressed syllables , and quarter or half notes to represent stressed syllables of varying weights . Caesuras are sometimes indicated by musical rests of various lengths . Musical scansion does have the advantage of representing more ...
... unstressed syllables , and quarter or half notes to represent stressed syllables of varying weights . Caesuras are sometimes indicated by musical rests of various lengths . Musical scansion does have the advantage of representing more ...
Page 42
... syllables without the ex- pected intervening unstressed syllables can reinforce effects of slowness , weight , or difficulty ; 2. A succession of unstressed syllables without the expected intervening stressed syllables can reinforce ...
... syllables without the ex- pected intervening unstressed syllables can reinforce effects of slowness , weight , or difficulty ; 2. A succession of unstressed syllables without the expected intervening stressed syllables can reinforce ...
Page 58
... syllables is caused by the feminine rhyme , and we must scan the lines as if each contained , at the end , a supernumerary syllable . Such a scansion is ap- propriate for reasons of ... unstressed syllables 58 PART ONE POETIC METER.
... syllables is caused by the feminine rhyme , and we must scan the lines as if each contained , at the end , a supernumerary syllable . Such a scansion is ap- propriate for reasons of ... unstressed syllables 58 PART ONE POETIC METER.
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