Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... anapestic lines is so firmly asso- ciated by now with light impudence or indecency that a poet can hardly write in anything resembling this measure without evoking smiles . To " translate " a limerick into , say , iambic tetrameter , is ...
... anapestic lines is so firmly asso- ciated by now with light impudence or indecency that a poet can hardly write in anything resembling this measure without evoking smiles . To " translate " a limerick into , say , iambic tetrameter , is ...
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... anapest ( anapaest ) ; anapestic intervene trochee ; trochaic topsy dactyl ; dactylic merrily And the following , although obviously not encoun- tered as The Technique of Scansion 23.
... anapest ( anapaest ) ; anapestic intervene trochee ; trochaic topsy dactyl ; dactylic merrily And the following , although obviously not encoun- tered as The Technique of Scansion 23.
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... anapestic feet is said to be in ascending or rising rhythm : the rhythm is so called because the reader is presumed ... anapests and dactyls , triple . To exemplify poetic feet by single words , as we have done above , is of course to ...
... anapestic feet is said to be in ascending or rising rhythm : the rhythm is so called because the reader is presumed ... anapests and dactyls , triple . To exemplify poetic feet by single words , as we have done above , is of course to ...
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