Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... William Carlos Williams . Copyright 1938 , 1951 by William Carlos Williams . By permission of New Directions . William Butler Yeats , “ Among School Children , ” “ A Prayer for My Son , " " Sailing to Byzantium , " and " The Tower ...
... William Carlos Williams . Copyright 1938 , 1951 by William Carlos Williams . By permission of New Directions . William Butler Yeats , “ Among School Children , ” “ A Prayer for My Son , " " Sailing to Byzantium , " and " The Tower ...
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... William Carlos Williams tightened the freely cadenced long line of Whitman and made of it a witty , informal instrument for registering the rhythms of actual American speech . T. S. Eliot's poetic dramas have shown what can still be ...
... William Carlos Williams tightened the freely cadenced long line of Whitman and made of it a witty , informal instrument for registering the rhythms of actual American speech . T. S. Eliot's poetic dramas have shown what can still be ...
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... William , On a Fly , 151- 2 ottava rima , 156–8 Peterson , Mattie J. , I Kissed Pa Twice , 36-37 Piers Plowman , 39 Poe , Edgar Allen , 87 ; Annabel Lee , 93 , 98 ; Ulalume , 94 Pope , Alexander , 12 , 49 , 84-85 , 96 , 116 , 138 ...
... William , On a Fly , 151- 2 ottava rima , 156–8 Peterson , Mattie J. , I Kissed Pa Twice , 36-37 Piers Plowman , 39 Poe , Edgar Allen , 87 ; Annabel Lee , 93 , 98 ; Ulalume , 94 Pope , Alexander , 12 , 49 , 84-85 , 96 , 116 , 138 ...
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