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... caesura , or extrametrical pause , within the lines . The caesura here , positioned after the fourth syllable , near the middle of the line , is called a medial caesura . If it should occur near the beginning of the line , it is called ...
... caesura , or extrametrical pause , within the lines . The caesura here , positioned after the fourth syllable , near the middle of the line , is called a medial caesura . If it should occur near the beginning of the line , it is called ...
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... caesura provides a metrical fulcrum for the rhetorical antitheses . Some lines have more than one caesura ; some have none . Unless the slight unpunctuated pause after lap in the last line of the Rubaiyat stanza be considered a caesura ...
... caesura provides a metrical fulcrum for the rhetorical antitheses . Some lines have more than one caesura ; some have none . Unless the slight unpunctuated pause after lap in the last line of the Rubaiyat stanza be considered a caesura ...
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... caesura occurs regularly in the medial position , we are dealing with a different kind of verse from that in which caesura placement is varied and unpredictable : which is to say that the whole metrical contract becomes a dif- ferent ...
... caesura occurs regularly in the medial position , we are dealing with a different kind of verse from that in which caesura placement is varied and unpredictable : which is to say that the whole metrical contract becomes a dif- ferent ...
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