Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... Old English verse the caesura is used in a fairly predictable way . It is only with the development in English of the staple iambic pentameter line - that ubiquitous and apparently per- manent vehicle - that varied and expressive ...
... Old English verse the caesura is used in a fairly predictable way . It is only with the development in English of the staple iambic pentameter line - that ubiquitous and apparently per- manent vehicle - that varied and expressive ...
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... Old 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 ...
... Old 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 ...
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... Old English mode . Most of W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety is written in a verse closely resembling the Old English accentual system , and now and then very pleasantly anachronistic effects result : lightning at noonday Swiftly ...
... Old English mode . Most of W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety is written in a verse closely resembling the Old English accentual system , and now and then very pleasantly anachronistic effects result : lightning at noonday Swiftly ...
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