Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... expressive variations made itself felt . Ironically , the regularists , by mistak- ing the whole aesthetic premise of meter , made their own unwitting contribution to the great English tra- dition of expressive metrical variations . As ...
... expressive variations made itself felt . Ironically , the regularists , by mistak- ing the whole aesthetic premise of meter , made their own unwitting contribution to the great English tra- dition of expressive metrical variations . As ...
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... expressive one ; between , say , the regularity of these lines from John Bidlake's " The Country Parson , " With heart compact as truth the cabbage stands , With trickling gems bedropt in twinkling play ; There nodding onions rang'd ...
... expressive one ; between , say , the regularity of these lines from John Bidlake's " The Country Parson , " With heart compact as truth the cabbage stands , With trickling gems bedropt in twinkling play ; There nodding onions rang'd ...
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... expressive form , or accommodation . That is , the sense and the form must adapt to each other : if a couplet follows a series of quatrains , the matter of the couplet should differ from the matter of the quatrains in order for the ...
... expressive form , or accommodation . That is , the sense and the form must adapt to each other : if a couplet follows a series of quatrains , the matter of the couplet should differ from the matter of the quatrains in order for the ...
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