Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... Consider now the following lines from the begin- ning of William Blake's " The Chimney Sweeper " ( Songs of Innocence ) : When my mother died I was very young , And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry , " ' weep ...
... Consider now the following lines from the begin- ning of William Blake's " The Chimney Sweeper " ( Songs of Innocence ) : When my mother died I was very young , And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry , " ' weep ...
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... considering , lines can also be varied by the addition or subtraction of unaccented syllables : these variations are ... Consider Yeats's variations here : Ónce out / of na / ture I / shall ne / ver take / My bo / dily form / from a / ny ...
... considering , lines can also be varied by the addition or subtraction of unaccented syllables : these variations are ... Consider Yeats's variations here : Ónce out / of na / ture I / shall ne / ver take / My bo / dily form / from a / ny ...
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... consider- ing the kinds of literal and ironic meaning that are generated from such sound resemblances as man - span ; womb - tomb ; years - fears ; and trust - dust . Bacon's use of the shape of his stanza has resulted in an impressive ...
... consider- ing the kinds of literal and ironic meaning that are generated from such sound resemblances as man - span ; womb - tomb ; years - fears ; and trust - dust . Bacon's use of the shape of his stanza has resulted in an impressive ...
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