Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... accentual meter only the accents are . Syllables may vary in number per line , it being as- sumed that three or four short syllables can be uttered in the same time that one or two long ones can . If syllabic meter seems naturally ...
... accentual meter only the accents are . Syllables may vary in number per line , it being as- sumed that three or four short syllables can be uttered in the same time that one or two long ones can . If syllabic meter seems naturally ...
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... accentual meters like Yeats's and Auden's are regarded as " loose iambic , " we can begin to invoke the term " strict iambic " as the number of both accents and syllables becomes regu- larized - that is , as the accentual stiffens ...
... accentual meters like Yeats's and Auden's are regarded as " loose iambic , " we can begin to invoke the term " strict iambic " as the number of both accents and syllables becomes regu- larized - that is , as the accentual stiffens ...
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... accentual - syllabic system is the general mode of versi- fication employed by conservative prosodic practition- ers in English : Dryden , Pope , Swift , and Johnson are examples . Accentual - syllabic meter seems to be fash- ionable ...
... accentual - syllabic system is the general mode of versi- fication employed by conservative prosodic practition- ers in English : Dryden , Pope , Swift , and Johnson are examples . Accentual - syllabic meter seems to be fash- ionable ...
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