Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... sonnet form is the one who has developed an instinct for exploiting the principle of imbalance . A characteristic of the Petrarchan sonnet is its con- vention of the " turn , " which normally occurs at the start of line 9 , the ...
... sonnet form is the one who has developed an instinct for exploiting the principle of imbalance . A characteristic of the Petrarchan sonnet is its con- vention of the " turn , " which normally occurs at the start of line 9 , the ...
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... Petrarchan sonnet structure is the pattern of sexual pressure and release . Surely no sonnet succeeds as a sonnet that does not execute at the turn something analogous to the gen- eral kinds of " release " with which the reader's ...
... Petrarchan sonnet structure is the pattern of sexual pressure and release . Surely no sonnet succeeds as a sonnet that does not execute at the turn something analogous to the gen- eral kinds of " release " with which the reader's ...
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... Petrarchan form poses a problem in the dense and organic development of the second quatrain , the Shakespearean form ... Sonnet XXIX " illustrates not only the relation of the first twelve lines to the concluding couplet but also , by the ...
... Petrarchan form poses a problem in the dense and organic development of the second quatrain , the Shakespearean form ... Sonnet XXIX " illustrates not only the relation of the first twelve lines to the concluding couplet but also , by 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 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