Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... syllabic , the accentual , the accentual - syllabic , and the quantitative . Syllabic prosody measures only the number of syl- lables per line without regard to the stress of the syllables relative to each other . Poets and critics work ...
... syllabic , the accentual , the accentual - syllabic , and the quantitative . Syllabic prosody measures only the number of syl- lables per line without regard to the stress of the syllables relative to each other . Poets and critics work ...
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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 ...
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... accentual - syllabic , and syllabic verse with equal facility . But even such engaging American experiments as the " spatial cadences " of E. E. Cummings and the ca- denced syllabism of Marianne Moore have stimulated no great horde of ...
... accentual - syllabic , and syllabic verse with equal facility . But even such engaging American experiments as the " spatial cadences " of E. E. Cummings and the ca- denced syllabism of Marianne Moore have stimulated no great horde of ...
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