Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... emotion - charged natural speech , sprung rhythm's effectiveness lies in suggesting a tone of seriousness , frankness , and inti- mate emotional involvement . Like Keats's terminal trochees , it transmits an illusion of a total , if one ...
... emotion - charged natural speech , sprung rhythm's effectiveness lies in suggesting a tone of seriousness , frankness , and inti- mate emotional involvement . Like Keats's terminal trochees , it transmits an illusion of a total , if one ...
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... emotional shift by which the speaker enables him- self to take a new or altered or enlarged view of his subject . The standard way of constructing a Petrarchan sonnet is to project the subject in the first quatrain ; to develop or ...
... emotional shift by which the speaker enables him- self to take a new or altered or enlarged view of his subject . The standard way of constructing a Petrarchan sonnet is to project the subject in the first quatrain ; to develop or ...
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... emotions . Which is to suggest that to turn at line 9 and to resolve in six lines is a very different emotional operation than to turn at line 13 and to resolve in two . Secondly , we see from the op- position between form and matter in ...
... emotions . Which is to suggest that to turn at line 9 and to resolve in six lines is a very different emotional operation than to turn at line 13 and to resolve in two . Secondly , we see from the op- position between form and matter in ...
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