Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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Paul Fussell. structure of English verse than it has in many con- tinental poetries . 2. The English language appears most naturally to organize its rhythms in ascending patterns : that is , the main instinct in English poetry is for ...
Paul Fussell. structure of English verse than it has in many con- tinental poetries . 2. The English language appears most naturally to organize its rhythms in ascending patterns : that is , the main instinct in English poetry is for ...
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... English accentual meter has only a limited capacity for " interplay , " most of the poets who have written in it have worked so skillfully that we hardly notice the limitations of the metrical system . Some modern metrical critics and ...
... English accentual meter has only a limited capacity for " interplay , " most of the poets who have written in it have worked so skillfully that we hardly notice the limitations of the metrical system . Some modern metrical critics and ...
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... poetry . MALOF , JOSEPH , " The Native Rhythm of English Meters , " Uni- versity of Texas Studies in Literature and Language , V ( 1964 ) , 580-94 . A clear presentation of the argument that one source of metrical interest in the English ...
... poetry . MALOF , JOSEPH , " The Native Rhythm of English Meters , " Uni- versity of Texas Studies in Literature and Language , V ( 1964 ) , 580-94 . A clear presentation of the argument that one source of metrical interest in the English ...
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