Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... appears to be the tone most commonly associated with accentual - syllabism . The following example from Swift's " The Beasts ' Confession to the Priest " ex- emplifies both the accentual and the syllabic limita- tions . The accents per ...
... appears to be the tone most commonly associated with accentual - syllabism . The following example from Swift's " The Beasts ' Confession to the Priest " ex- emplifies both the accentual and the syllabic limita- tions . The accents per ...
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... appears most naturally to organize its rhythms in ascending patterns : that is , the main instinct in English poetry is for iambic or oc- casionally anapestic movements rather than for tro- chaic or dactylic . 3. Most English poetry ...
... appears most naturally to organize its rhythms in ascending patterns : that is , the main instinct in English poetry is for iambic or oc- casionally anapestic movements rather than for tro- chaic or dactylic . 3. Most English poetry ...
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... appears to have happened when a poem mani- fests an excessively regular metric is that one of its many elements , the metrical , has hypertrophied and stands in a gross and unlovely imbalance to the rest . This defect seems apparent in ...
... appears to have happened when a poem mani- fests an excessively regular metric is that one of its many elements , the metrical , has hypertrophied and stands in a gross and unlovely imbalance to the rest . This defect seems apparent in ...
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