Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... elements of physical beauty : ' Tis not a lip or eye we beauty call , But the / joint force , / and full result of all . The same kind of sudden physical force is given a spondaic embodiment when Pope speaks of critics who admire bright ...
... elements of physical beauty : ' Tis not a lip or eye we beauty call , But the / joint force , / and full result of all . The same kind of sudden physical force is given a spondaic embodiment when Pope speaks of critics who admire bright ...
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... elements , elements which seem the very antithesis of the ideal of density . An excessively " imposed " meter , although defective , becomes more interesting the nearer the meter ap- proaches something like appropriateness . Thus the in ...
... elements , elements which seem the very antithesis of the ideal of density . An excessively " imposed " meter , although defective , becomes more interesting the nearer the meter ap- proaches something like appropriateness . Thus the in ...
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... elements of poems : it is not his work to pres- ent " beautiful rhythms " but beautiful - that is , wholly coherent - poems in which the rhythms perfectly fuse with the many other sources of meaning . Throughout the history of English ...
... elements of poems : it is not his work to pres- ent " beautiful rhythms " but beautiful - that is , wholly coherent - poems in which the rhythms perfectly fuse with the many other sources of meaning . Throughout the history of English ...
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