Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... effects on the reader actually are . The transmission of expressive rhythm to the reader is always the result of artistic il- lusion , and the effect that works , no matter how " im- possible " or " illogical , " is the only one to be ...
... effects on the reader actually are . The transmission of expressive rhythm to the reader is always the result of artistic il- lusion , and the effect that works , no matter how " im- possible " or " illogical , " is the only one to be ...
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... effects — the effect of sudden move- ment or of a surprising emphasis or of a change in direction or tone - although , as we have seen , any foot ( even the spondee ) which constitutes a distinct rever- sal of the prevailing metrical ...
... effects — the effect of sudden move- ment or of a surprising emphasis or of a change in direction or tone - although , as we have seen , any foot ( even the spondee ) which constitutes a distinct rever- sal of the prevailing metrical ...
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... effect of sudden vigor ; but the initial modifying trochee of the last line works on us inversely by transmitting an effect of sudden calm . Substantives in an initial trochaic ( or spondaic ) sit- uation seem to evoke a slightly ...
... effect of sudden vigor ; but the initial modifying trochee of the last line works on us inversely by transmitting an effect of sudden calm . Substantives in an initial trochaic ( or spondaic ) sit- uation seem to evoke a slightly ...
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