Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... Shakespearean form asks even more of the poet's capacity to develop rather than merely to repeat or to vary or to ... Shakespearean sonnets is similar , it is the proportion- ing that makes the immense difference between them . Both ...
... Shakespearean form asks even more of the poet's capacity to develop rather than merely to repeat or to vary or to ... Shakespearean sonnets is similar , it is the proportion- ing that makes the immense difference between them . Both ...
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... Shakespearean : it consists of three quatrains and a final couplet . The difference is that the Spenserian form overlaps the rhymes at the junctions of the qua- trains , thus : a b FIRST QUATRAIN a b INTERNAL COUPLET b C SECOND QUATRAIN ...
... Shakespearean : it consists of three quatrains and a final couplet . The difference is that the Spenserian form overlaps the rhymes at the junctions of the qua- trains , thus : a b FIRST QUATRAIN a b INTERNAL COUPLET b C SECOND QUATRAIN ...
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... Shakespeare's poem : Over one arm the lusty courser's rein , Under her other was the tender boy , Who blush'd and pouted ... Shakespearean sonnet , tempts the poet who arrives at it after the quatrain to sallies of epi- grammatic paradox ...
... Shakespeare's poem : Over one arm the lusty courser's rein , Under her other was the tender boy , Who blush'd and pouted ... Shakespearean sonnet , tempts the poet who arrives at it after the quatrain to sallies of epi- grammatic paradox ...
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