Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... century is copious ; it is also systematic , and , under the influence of the empiricism of John Locke , remarkably " psychological . " Throughout the century the practice of the poets substantially follows the urgings of the ...
... century is copious ; it is also systematic , and , under the influence of the empiricism of John Locke , remarkably " psychological . " Throughout the century the practice of the poets substantially follows the urgings of the ...
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... Century : The great phenomenon in nineteenth - century English versification is the rejection of strict accentual - syllabism in favor of accentualism . This is to say that the use of trisyllabic substitu- tion in duple metrical ...
... Century : The great phenomenon in nineteenth - century English versification is the rejection of strict accentual - syllabism in favor of accentualism . This is to say that the use of trisyllabic substitu- tion in duple metrical ...
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... century was conceived by many- and may be conceived by us - as an expression of nine- teenth - century liberalism or of the primitivist strain of romanticism . Another unique nineteenth - century pro- sodic phenomenon is the attempt to ...
... century was conceived by many- and may be conceived by us - as an expression of nine- teenth - century liberalism or of the primitivist strain of romanticism . Another unique nineteenth - century pro- sodic phenomenon is the attempt to ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 20 |
Metrical Variations | 36 |
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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