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 132
... white space between the two parts is an ascent to a slightly higher plateau of abstraction . The white space does not partake of the dramatic , as it does in a tri- umphant sonnet based on the plan of Petrarchan dis- proportion . What ...
... white space between the two parts is an ascent to a slightly higher plateau of abstraction . The white space does not partake of the dramatic , as it does in a tri- umphant sonnet based on the plan of Petrarchan dis- proportion . What ...
Page 168
... white space be- tween stanzas means something . If nothing is con- ceived to be taking place within it , if no kind of silent pressure or advance or reconsideration or illumina- tion or perception seems to be going on in that white ...
... white space be- tween stanzas means something . If nothing is con- ceived to be taking place within it , if no kind of silent pressure or advance or reconsideration or illumina- tion or perception seems to be going on in that white ...
Page 170
... white space between the first and second stanzas , that white space which is all - important in a lyric of more than one stanza , implies the question , " What else is to be praised in the same terms and structure as the flower ? " The ...
... white space between the first and second stanzas , that white space which is all - important in a lyric of more than one stanza , implies the question , " What else is to be praised in the same terms and structure as the flower ? " The ...
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