Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... become sensitive to the presence of caesuras in English poems is to move toward both a heightened awareness of literary history and a new receptiveness to the art of texture in all the poems one encounters . In classical , Romance , and ...
... become sensitive to the presence of caesuras in English poems is to move toward both a heightened awareness of literary history and a new receptiveness to the art of texture in all the poems one encounters . In classical , Romance , and ...
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... become skeptical of " modernized " texts ; otherwise we run the risk of modernizing - and thus distorting - the ... becomes disobed - yence . Its normal five syllables are reduced to four to keep the line decasyllabic . Syncope , on the ...
... become skeptical of " modernized " texts ; otherwise we run the risk of modernizing - and thus distorting - the ... becomes disobed - yence . Its normal five syllables are reduced to four to keep the line decasyllabic . Syncope , on the ...
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... become more than merely per- sonal ; they become native . He thus clothes his naked uniqueness ( no fear - it will be civilized and intensified , not smothered by the clothing ) in the real spoken language of the time . And we can add ...
... become more than merely per- sonal ; they become native . He thus clothes his naked uniqueness ( no fear - it will be civilized and intensified , not smothered by the clothing ) in the real spoken language of the time . And we can add ...
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