Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... Faber and Faber , Ltd. George Barker , " Pacific Sonnets VII " from Selected Poems . By permission of October House , Inc. and Faber and Faber , Ltd. Copyright 1965 by George Barker . Robert Bridges , " Cheddar Pinks , " " I Praise the ...
... Faber and Faber , Ltd. George Barker , " Pacific Sonnets VII " from Selected Poems . By permission of October House , Inc. and Faber and Faber , Ltd. Copyright 1965 by George Barker . Robert Bridges , " Cheddar Pinks , " " I Praise the ...
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... Faber and Faber , Ltd. Donald Hall , " Christmas Eve at Whitneyville " from The Dark Houses by Donald Hall . Copyright 1958 by Donald Hall . By permission of The Viking Press , Inc. and Curtis Brown , Ltd. Thomas Hardy , " The Darkling ...
... Faber and Faber , Ltd. Donald Hall , " Christmas Eve at Whitneyville " from The Dark Houses by Donald Hall . Copyright 1958 by Donald Hall . By permission of The Viking Press , Inc. and Curtis Brown , Ltd. Thomas Hardy , " The Darkling ...
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... Faber and Faber , Ltd. William Carlos Williams , " The Dance " and " The Red Wheel- barrow " from The Collected Earlier Poems of William Carlos Williams . Copyright 1938 , 1951 by William Carlos Williams . By permission of New ...
... Faber and Faber , Ltd. William Carlos Williams , " The Dance " and " The Red Wheel- barrow " from The Collected Earlier Poems of William Carlos Williams . Copyright 1938 , 1951 by William Carlos Williams . By permission of New ...
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