Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... called a medial caesura . If it should occur near the beginning of the line , it is called an initial caesura ; if near the end of the line , terminal . Caesuras , which are often marked by punc- tuation , can be said to correspond to ...
... called a medial caesura . If it should occur near the beginning of the line , it is called an initial caesura ; if near the end of the line , terminal . Caesuras , which are often marked by punc- tuation , can be said to correspond to ...
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... called closed couplets : Faith is not built on disquisitions vain ; The things we must believe are few and plain . When enjambed , on the other hand , couplets are called open : That's my last Duchess painted on the wall , Looking as if ...
... called closed couplets : Faith is not built on disquisitions vain ; The things we must believe are few and plain . When enjambed , on the other hand , couplets are called open : That's my last Duchess painted on the wall , Looking as if ...
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... called heroic or elegiac quatrain . It is sometimes called heroic because of its association with noble subjects during the Resto- ration . Dryden's " Annus Mirabilis " provides good ex- amples of one sort of materials that most readers ...
... called heroic or elegiac quatrain . It is sometimes called heroic because of its association with noble subjects during the Resto- ration . Dryden's " Annus Mirabilis " provides good ex- amples of one sort of materials that most readers ...
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