Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... Canada , by Random House of Canada Limited . Library of Congress Catalog Card Number : 65-17442 Manufactured in the United States of America by American Book - Stratford Press , New York PE 1505 778 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS W. H. Auden , " The.
... Canada , by Random House of Canada Limited . Library of Congress Catalog Card Number : 65-17442 Manufactured in the United States of America by American Book - Stratford Press , New York PE 1505 778 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS W. H. Auden , " The.
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Paul Fussell. PE 1505 778 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS W. H. Auden , " The Age of Anxiety " from The Age of Anxiety . " In Memory of William Butler Yeats " and " September 1 , 1939 " from The Collected Poetry of W. H. Auden . “ The Fall of Rome ...
Paul Fussell. PE 1505 778 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS W. H. Auden , " The Age of Anxiety " from The Age of Anxiety . " In Memory of William Butler Yeats " and " September 1 , 1939 " from The Collected Poetry of W. H. Auden . “ The Fall of Rome ...
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... W. H. Auden , Marianne Moore , Yvor Winters , Alan Stephens , 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 ...
... W. H. Auden , Marianne Moore , Yvor Winters , Alan Stephens , 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 ...
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