Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... hand / in hand , with wand'ring steps and slow Through Eden took thir solitary way . Remembering that natural in line 1 is reduced by syncope to naƄ'ral , we find here only three substitutions in five lines : initial spondees in lines 1 ...
... hand / in hand , with wand'ring steps and slow Through Eden took thir solitary way . Remembering that natural in line 1 is reduced by syncope to naƄ'ral , we find here only three substitutions in five lines : initial spondees in lines 1 ...
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... hand in hand Through green eternity . O swept overboard Nor could the thirty - foot jaws them part . . . Richard Wilbur , on the other hand , demonstrates his accuracy and tact as a metrist in " A Simile for Her Smile , " where almost ...
... hand in hand Through green eternity . O swept overboard Nor could the thirty - foot jaws them part . . . Richard Wilbur , on the other hand , demonstrates his accuracy and tact as a metrist in " A Simile for Her Smile , " where almost ...
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... hand , and , on the other , the whimsical rhythmical anarchy of totally unmetered free verse . In the latter part of his career , after the composition of Paterson , Williams came to think of the basic unit of this new cadence as what ...
... hand , and , on the other , the whimsical rhythmical anarchy of totally unmetered free verse . In the latter part of his career , after the composition of Paterson , Williams came to think of the basic unit of this new cadence as what ...
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