Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... foot to describe the rhythmic norm of poetic lines , then the foot consists of one stressed syllable and one or two unstressed syllables . The poetic line in a more or less regular composition , traditionalists would main- tain ...
... foot to describe the rhythmic norm of poetic lines , then the foot consists of one stressed syllable and one or two unstressed syllables . The poetic line in a more or less regular composition , traditionalists would main- tain ...
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... foot divisions do not necessarily correspond to word divi- sions . Actually , the foot is rather like a musical bar in that both foot and bar are arbitrary abstract units of measure which do not necessarily coincide with the phrasal ...
... foot divisions do not necessarily correspond to word divi- sions . Actually , the foot is rather like a musical bar in that both foot and bar are arbitrary abstract units of measure which do not necessarily coincide with the phrasal ...
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... foot in substitution , or by any un- expected juxtaposition of unstressed syllables . The classic example is provided by Pope in the " Essay on Criticism " ; the couplet follows directly the one in which Ajax is depicted striving to ...
... foot in substitution , or by any un- expected juxtaposition of unstressed syllables . The classic example is provided by Pope in the " Essay on Criticism " ; the couplet follows directly the one in which Ajax is depicted striving to ...
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