Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... Copyright 1965 by George Barker . Robert Bridges , " Cheddar Pinks , " " I Praise the Tender Flower , " and " Wintry Delights " from Poetical Works of Robert Bridges . By permission of The Clarendon Press , Oxford . Taniguchi Buson ...
... Copyright 1965 by George Barker . Robert Bridges , " Cheddar Pinks , " " I Praise the Tender Flower , " and " Wintry Delights " from Poetical Works of Robert Bridges . By permission of The Clarendon Press , Oxford . Taniguchi Buson ...
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... Copyright 1962 by John Hollander . By permission of Atheneum Publishers . Gerard Manley Hopkins , " At the Wedding March " and " Pied Beauty " from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins edited by W. H. Gardner . Copyright 1948 by Oxford ...
... Copyright 1962 by John Hollander . By permission of Atheneum Publishers . Gerard Manley Hopkins , " At the Wedding March " and " Pied Beauty " from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins edited by W. H. Gardner . Copyright 1948 by Oxford ...
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... Copyright 1953 by Dylan Thomas ; copyright 1957 by New Directions . By permission of New Directions , J. M. Dent & Sons , Ltd. , and the representatives of the Dylan Thomas Estate . Henry Van Dyke , “ America for Me " from The Works of ...
... Copyright 1953 by Dylan Thomas ; copyright 1957 by New Directions . By permission of New Directions , J. M. Dent & Sons , Ltd. , and the representatives of the Dylan Thomas Estate . Henry Van Dyke , “ America for Me " from The Works of ...
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 Copyright critical device effect elements Eliot emotional emphasis English poetry English verse enjambment example experience expressive Faber feet fixed forms foot formal heroic couplet iambic pentameter illusion imply initial trochee irony kind language logical meaning medial caesura ment meter metrical variations metrist musical nature number of syllables octave Old English organization Paradise Lost pattern perhaps permission 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 sound Spenserian spondaic spondaic substitution spondee sprung rhythm stanza stanzaic form stichic stress strophic structure suggest technical technique tends tercet terminal trochee texture thing Thom Gunn thou tion tradition triplet trisyllabic trochee turn unstressed syllables versification W. H. Auden white space William words Wordsworth's Yeats