Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... Yeats , “ Among School Children , ” “ A Prayer for My Son , " " Sailing to Byzantium , " and " The Tower " from The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats . Copyright 1928 by The Macmillan Company ; renewed 1956 by Georgie Yeats . " The Statues ...
... Yeats , “ Among School Children , ” “ A Prayer for My Son , " " Sailing to Byzantium , " and " The Tower " from The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats . Copyright 1928 by The Macmillan Company ; renewed 1956 by Georgie Yeats . " The Statues ...
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... Yeats , for example , we find four stresses per line , although the number of syllables varies from seven to nine ... Yeats's and Auden's are regarded as " loose iambic , " we can begin to invoke the term " strict iambic " as the number ...
... Yeats , for example , we find four stresses per line , although the number of syllables varies from seven to nine ... Yeats's and Auden's are regarded as " loose iambic , " we can begin to invoke the term " strict iambic " as the number ...
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... Yeats is another who , taking a lesson from Swift , manages the tetram- eter couplet with a masterful flexibility . His " Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad ? " , which we have met before , stands at the opposite metrical extreme from ...
... Yeats is another who , taking a lesson from Swift , manages the tetram- eter couplet with a masterful flexibility . His " Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad ? " , which we have met before , stands at the opposite metrical extreme from ...
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