Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... heart beat , the apprehension of metered language ex- hilarates the hearer or reader physically : the heart beat , it is said , actually speeds up in an effort to " match " the slightly faster poetic rhythm . According to I. A. Richards ...
... heart beat , the apprehension of metered language ex- hilarates the hearer or reader physically : the heart beat , it is said , actually speeds up in an effort to " match " the slightly faster poetic rhythm . According to I. A. Richards ...
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... hearts is one constant in Eng- lish poetry which always seems to invite a spondaic rendering . Here is Tennyson in " The Princess " : I would you had her , Prince , with all my heart , With my / full heart : / And then there is Hardy's ...
... hearts is one constant in Eng- lish poetry which always seems to invite a spondaic rendering . Here is Tennyson in " The Princess " : I would you had her , Prince , with all my heart , With my / full heart : / And then there is Hardy's ...
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... heart tormented . I praise the gentle maid Whose happy voice and smile To confidence betrayed My doleful heart awhile : And gave my spirit deploring Fresh wings for soaring . The maid for very fear Of love I durst not tell : The rose ...
... heart tormented . I praise the gentle maid Whose happy voice and smile To confidence betrayed My doleful heart awhile : And gave my spirit deploring Fresh wings for soaring . The maid for very fear Of love I durst not tell : The rose ...
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