Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... Critical Implications of Metrical Analysis 3 20 36 74 91 ยท Part Two Poetic Form 6 Structural Principles : The Example of the Sonnet 113 7 The English Stanzas 134 8 Some Critical Implications of Stanzaic Forms 166 9 Conventions and the ...
... Critical Implications of Metrical Analysis 3 20 36 74 91 ยท Part Two Poetic Form 6 Structural Principles : The Example of the Sonnet 113 7 The English Stanzas 134 8 Some Critical Implications of Stanzaic Forms 166 9 Conventions and the ...
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... critical perception and ultimately for critical judg- ment that scansion can justify itself . The sort of per- ception that scansion makes possible by translating sound into visual terms can be illustrated in the Ru- baiyat stanza with ...
... critical perception and ultimately for critical judg- ment that scansion can justify itself . The sort of per- ception that scansion makes possible by translating sound into visual terms can be illustrated in the Ru- baiyat stanza with ...
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... critical princi- ples . In the appraisal of poetry an axiom perhaps gen- erally accepted is that , given a poetic subject and treatment that " work " -that is , that stand a good chance of engaging repeatedly the best wits of a good ...
... critical princi- ples . In the appraisal of poetry an axiom perhaps gen- erally accepted is that , given a poetic subject and treatment that " work " -that is , that stand a good chance of engaging repeatedly the best wits of a good ...
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