Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... Wordsworth's " A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal . " Here Wordsworth , like Milton , seems careful to return to the strictest kind of iambic regularity after the substitution , as if to throw the spondee into even bolder relief : No motion ...
... Wordsworth's " A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal . " Here Wordsworth , like Milton , seems careful to return to the strictest kind of iambic regularity after the substitution , as if to throw the spondee into even bolder relief : No motion ...
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... Wordsworth's " I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud " : I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills , When all at once I saw a crowd , A Host , of golden daffodils ; Beside the lake , beneath the trees , Fluttering and ...
... Wordsworth's " I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud " : I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills , When all at once I saw a crowd , A Host , of golden daffodils ; Beside the lake , beneath the trees , Fluttering and ...
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... Wordsworth's " I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud . " The stanza is , indeed , firmly as- sociated with that poem , and ... Wordsworth says : A poet could not but be gay , In such a jocund company . Justice overtly says nothing about his ...
... Wordsworth's " I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud . " The stanza is , indeed , firmly as- sociated with that poem , and ... Wordsworth says : A poet could not but be gay , In such a jocund company . Justice overtly says nothing about his ...
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