Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... form . When a poet is faced with decisions about organiz- ing his materials , he has two large possibilities before him . He may choose a fixed form , or he may devise what we can call a nonce form . A fixed form is one that has been ...
... form . When a poet is faced with decisions about organiz- ing his materials , he has two large possibilities before him . He may choose a fixed form , or he may devise what we can call a nonce form . A fixed form is one that has been ...
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... Form . " The poet's at- titude toward fixed metrical and stanzaic forms , Cunningham reminds us , reflects his general orienta- tion toward authority , hierarchy , and history ; and the contemporary poet , anxious to escape from the fixed ...
... Form . " The poet's at- titude toward fixed metrical and stanzaic forms , Cunningham reminds us , reflects his general orienta- tion toward authority , hierarchy , and history ; and the contemporary poet , anxious to escape from the fixed ...
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... fixed forms do is to supply the equivalent in poetry of these structures of signification that Kermode speaks of . Expression and a degree of communication can , perhaps , take place in " an unstructured medium , " but poetic ex ...
... fixed forms do is to supply the equivalent in poetry of these structures of signification that Kermode speaks of . Expression and a degree of communication can , perhaps , take place in " an unstructured medium , " but poetic ex ...
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