Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... enjambment , or run - on lines . As he composes each line he must decide whether its nature is such that it should remain as a distinct unit - should ex- hibit what we can call " line integrity " -or whether it should “ run on " to the ...
... enjambment , or run - on lines . As he composes each line he must decide whether its nature is such that it should remain as a distinct unit - should ex- hibit what we can call " line integrity " -or whether it should “ run on " to the ...
Page 118
... enjambment in " Endymion " : Full in the middle of this pleasantness There stood a marble altar , with a tress Of flowers budded newly ; and the dew Had taken fairy phantasies to strew Daisies upon the sacred sward last eve . • More ...
... enjambment in " Endymion " : Full in the middle of this pleasantness There stood a marble altar , with a tress Of flowers budded newly ; and the dew Had taken fairy phantasies to strew Daisies upon the sacred sward last eve . • More ...
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... enjambment , 116–18 envelope rhyme , 124-5 , 144 , 149 Ewart , Gavin , 78's , 53 falling rhythm , 24 Fitzgerald , Edward , Rubaiyat , 22 , 26 , 27 , 34-35 , 62 , 144 five - line stanzas , 149-51 foot , 23-26 fourteeners , 98 Frost ...
... enjambment , 116–18 envelope rhyme , 124-5 , 144 , 149 Ewart , Gavin , 78's , 53 falling rhythm , 24 Fitzgerald , Edward , Rubaiyat , 22 , 26 , 27 , 34-35 , 62 , 144 five - line stanzas , 149-51 foot , 23-26 fourteeners , 98 Frost ...
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