Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... expect moments of celebra- tion or reminiscence to shape themselves into strophes , while we expect social commentary or depictions of man in social or ethical action to seek stichic form . The basic element of coherence in a strophe ...
... expect moments of celebra- tion or reminiscence to shape themselves into strophes , while we expect social commentary or depictions of man in social or ethical action to seek stichic form . The basic element of coherence in a strophe ...
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... expect to find formal competence , let alone formal excellence , everywhere we turn . We will not even expect to find it in all the poems of a highly regarded poet : certain of Shakespeare's sonnets are as bad as certain of Wordsworth's ...
... expect to find formal competence , let alone formal excellence , everywhere we turn . We will not even expect to find it in all the poems of a highly regarded poet : certain of Shakespeare's sonnets are as bad as certain of Wordsworth's ...
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... expect , into a " toy , " which we do not expect , but which proves to be perfect . " Toy " prevents the idea of the toy top ever to vanish entirely from our imagery , while at the same time it implies with great density the appropriate ...
... expect , into a " toy , " which we do not expect , but which proves to be perfect . " Toy " prevents the idea of the toy top ever to vanish entirely from our imagery , while at the same time it implies with great density the appropriate ...
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