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poetry, it is accentual meter which is the basis of most Germanic poetries—
including Old English— and of most poems in Modern English in which the
number of syllables varies from line to line. In the following lines by Yeats, for
example, we ...
poetry, it is accentual meter which is the basis of most Germanic poetries—
including Old English— and of most poems in Modern English in which the
number of syllables varies from line to line. In the following lines by Yeats, for
example, we ...
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In accentual-syllabic meter, variations in accent position, addition, or omission
are more readily accepted than variations in the number of syllables per line. The
result of this strictness is a metrical medium of some rigidity and inflexibility, but at
...
In accentual-syllabic meter, variations in accent position, addition, or omission
are more readily accepted than variations in the number of syllables per line. The
result of this strictness is a metrical medium of some rigidity and inflexibility, but at
...
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Twentieth Century: Brooding over the metrical history of our time is the spirit of
one of the greatest of traditional accentual-syllabic metrists, William Butler Yeats.
It is the force of his example as a poet of rich traditional metrical usages that, time
...
Twentieth Century: Brooding over the metrical history of our time is the spirit of
one of the greatest of traditional accentual-syllabic metrists, William Butler Yeats.
It is the force of his example as a poet of rich traditional metrical usages that, time
...
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User Review - rooze - LibraryThingThis is, indeed, an authoritative guide to meter and form. However, Fussell's arrogance had me running to other equally authoritative yet substantially less elitist sources. Try Mary Oliver's Rules of the Dance or Stephen Fry's The Ode Less Travelled instead. Read full review
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User Review - michaelm42071 - LibraryThingThis is not the first book to read on the subject of how form assists meaning in poetry; for that I would go back to John Ciardi’s How Does a Poem Mean? But Fussell’s book is a good, succinct one for ... Read full review
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 20 |
Metrical Variations | 36 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Poetic meter and poetic form Volume 3 of Random House studies in language and literature Volume 3 of Studies in language and literature |
| Author | Paul Fussell |
| Publisher | Random House, 1965 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 23 Jul 2010 |
| Length | 208 pages |
| Subjects | › English language Literary Criticism / Poetry Literary form |
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