Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... feel , in each foot , an " ascent " from a relatively unstressed syllable to a rela- tively stressed one . The term ... feeling of aspiration , levity , or cheer , nor does descending rhythm - generated by prevailing trochees or dactyls ...
... feel , in each foot , an " ascent " from a relatively unstressed syllable to a rela- tively stressed one . The term ... feeling of aspiration , levity , or cheer , nor does descending rhythm - generated by prevailing trochees or dactyls ...
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... feel for metrical variations ] because they offered for the first time , in Tottel and in Gas- coigne , the concept of a clear , workable metrical norm from which later poets were to make their prosperous departures 82 PART ONE POETIC ...
... feel for metrical variations ] because they offered for the first time , in Tottel and in Gas- coigne , the concept of a clear , workable metrical norm from which later poets were to make their prosperous departures 82 PART ONE POETIC ...
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... feel The touch of earthly years . No motion has she now , no force ; She neither hears nor sees ; Roll'd round in earth's diurnal course , With rocks , and stones , and trees . It is impossible to think of this poem's appearing in a ...
... feel The touch of earthly years . No motion has she now , no force ; She neither hears nor sees ; Roll'd round in earth's diurnal course , With rocks , and stones , and trees . It is impossible to think of this poem's appearing in a ...
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