Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... Thom Gunn , " Loot " from My Sad Captains and Other Poems by Thom Gunn . © 1961 by Thom Gunn . By permission of The University of Chicago Press and Faber and Faber , Ltd. Donald Hall , " Christmas Eve at Whitneyville " from The Dark ...
... Thom Gunn , " Loot " from My Sad Captains and Other Poems by Thom Gunn . © 1961 by Thom Gunn . By permission of The University of Chicago Press and Faber and Faber , Ltd. Donald Hall , " Christmas Eve at Whitneyville " from The Dark ...
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... Thom Gunn , and Donald Hall have composed on occasion syl- labically . But despite sporadic successes , even these poets would probably agree that syllabism is not a natural measuring system in a language so Germanic and thus so ...
... Thom Gunn , and Donald Hall have composed on occasion syl- labically . But despite sporadic successes , even these poets would probably agree that syllabism is not a natural measuring system in a language so Germanic and thus so ...
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... Thom Gunn is ridden by theory , and by theory too rigidly and insensitively applied to actualities . Mr. Gunn's decision to compose his poem syllabically- each line contains seven syllables - unfortunately can- not repeal the ...
... Thom Gunn is ridden by theory , and by theory too rigidly and insensitively applied to actualities . Mr. Gunn's decision to compose his poem syllabically- each line contains seven syllables - unfortunately can- not repeal 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