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... COUPLET b C SECOND QUATRAIN b INTERNAL COUPLET { C C d THIRD QUATRAIN d • } COUPLET The effect of the two internal couplets is to fuse the quatrains to each other and to provide a structural basis for a special tightness in the ...
... COUPLET b C SECOND QUATRAIN b INTERNAL COUPLET { C C d THIRD QUATRAIN d • } COUPLET The effect of the two internal couplets is to fuse the quatrains to each other and to provide a structural basis for a special tightness in the ...
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... couplets in their famous transla- tions of Virgil and Homer , the associations of the closed couplet have become more " heroic " -that is , elevated , operatic , unrealistic - than those of the open . To use a form associated with the ...
... couplets in their famous transla- tions of Virgil and Homer , the associations of the closed couplet have become more " heroic " -that is , elevated , operatic , unrealistic - than those of the open . To use a form associated with the ...
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... couplet over- laps the initial quatrain , and partly because the effect of the final separated couplet is prepared for gradually by the central couplet . The stanza's progression from quatrain to couplet organization is thus subtle and ...
... couplet over- laps the initial quatrain , and partly because the effect of the final separated couplet is prepared for gradually by the central couplet . The stanza's progression from quatrain to couplet organization is thus subtle and ...
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