Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... classical literatures : Unhappy verse , the witness of my unhappy state , Make thyself flutt'ring wings of thy fast ... Classical Metres in English ( 1898 ) , Robert Bridges also experimented with quan- titative English verse . Here , in ...
... classical literatures : Unhappy verse , the witness of my unhappy state , Make thyself flutt'ring wings of thy fast ... Classical Metres in English ( 1898 ) , Robert Bridges also experimented with quan- titative English verse . Here , in ...
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... classical learning and enthusiasm - and the increas- ing association of classical learning with mere gen- tility - practically guaranteed a tiny and ineffective audience for such Alexandrian pursuits . It was at this time that Hopkins ...
... classical learning and enthusiasm - and the increas- ing association of classical learning with mere gen- tility - practically guaranteed a tiny and ineffective audience for such Alexandrian pursuits . It was at this time that Hopkins ...
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... classical original , with a spondee ( or trochee ) falling customarily in the sec- ond position . Thus Isaac Watts in " The Day of Judg- ment " : When the fierce north wind with his airy forces Rears up the Baltic to a foaming fury ...
... classical original , with a spondee ( or trochee ) falling customarily in the sec- ond position . Thus Isaac Watts in " The Day of Judg- ment " : When the fierce north wind with his airy forces Rears up the Baltic to a foaming fury ...
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