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 74
... versification are too complex and multifold to harbor in any one single system of explanation or description . Indeed , if we had to construct some generalizations that might hold true for all English poetry from , say , “ The Battle of ...
... versification are too complex and multifold to harbor in any one single system of explanation or description . Indeed , if we had to construct some generalizations that might hold true for all English poetry from , say , “ The Battle of ...
Page 77
Paul Fussell. Old English versification presents a delusive air of simplicity : actually it is a metrical system of very ... versification , these essentials of structural al- literation and invariable medial caesura pose prob- lems to ...
Paul Fussell. Old English versification presents a delusive air of simplicity : actually it is a metrical system of very ... versification , these essentials of structural al- literation and invariable medial caesura pose prob- lems to ...
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... versification is the rejection of strict accentual - syllabism in favor of accentualism . This is to say that the use of trisyllabic substitu- tion in duple metrical contexts becomes the technical hallmark of the age , just as the ...
... versification is the rejection of strict accentual - syllabism in favor of accentualism . This is to say that the use of trisyllabic substitu- tion in duple metrical contexts becomes the technical hallmark of the age , just as the ...
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