Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... beginnings of lines are especially vigorous just because they occur initially : even in lines so boldly run - on as ... beginning of the next . Like a sudden drum beat after silence , the trochaic syllable , when it occurs initially ...
... beginnings of lines are especially vigorous just because they occur initially : even in lines so boldly run - on as ... beginning of the next . Like a sudden drum beat after silence , the trochaic syllable , when it occurs initially ...
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... beginning of the sestet . It is per- haps more accurate to say that the turn occurs some- where in the white space that separates line 8 from line 9 , and that line 9 simply reflects or records it . But wherever we think of it as ...
... beginning of the sestet . It is per- haps more accurate to say that the turn occurs some- where in the white space that separates line 8 from line 9 , and that line 9 simply reflects or records it . But wherever we think of it as ...
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... beginning of the third quatrain or somewhere within it . If the Petrarchan form poses a problem in the dense and organic development of the second quatrain , the Shakespearean form asks even more of the poet's capacity to develop rather ...
... beginning of the third quatrain or somewhere within it . If the Petrarchan form poses a problem in the dense and organic development of the second quatrain , the Shakespearean form asks even more of the poet's capacity to develop rather ...
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