Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... formal caesura practice is that a domestic rural disaster is being raised to the elevation of extremely formal art . We can contrast , on the other hand , the practice of T. S. Eliot in " Journey of the Magi ” . Here the caesuras are ...
... formal caesura practice is that a domestic rural disaster is being raised to the elevation of extremely formal art . We can contrast , on the other hand , the practice of T. S. Eliot in " Journey of the Magi ” . Here the caesuras are ...
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... formal mode than the heroic couplet , but in his Irene , Samuel Johnson writes end - stopped blank verse lines which generate a much more formal atmosphere than the run - on rhymed couplets of Keats . The decision a poet makes about ...
... formal mode than the heroic couplet , but in his Irene , Samuel Johnson writes end - stopped blank verse lines which generate a much more formal atmosphere than the run - on rhymed couplets of Keats . The decision a poet makes about ...
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... 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 failed poems ...
... 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 failed poems ...
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