Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... [ iambic pentameter ] line to lead a double life , to qualify for strict iambic pentameter through such devices as ' promotion ' of a medial stress to the rank of a full one , and yet to assert beneath the surface the four strong beats of ...
... [ iambic pentameter ] line to lead a double life , to qualify for strict iambic pentameter through such devices as ' promotion ' of a medial stress to the rank of a full one , and yet to assert beneath the surface the four strong beats of ...
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... iambic pentameter is going to become , for whatever ultimate reason , the staple line of the Modern English period ... iambic tetrameter or pentameter line a vehicle for wit , shock , and ecstasy by a bold shifting or addition of ...
... iambic pentameter is going to become , for whatever ultimate reason , the staple line of the Modern English period ... iambic tetrameter or pentameter line a vehicle for wit , shock , and ecstasy by a bold shifting or addition of ...
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... iambic pentameter line followed by two iambic tetrameters , all exquisitely varied from the iambic base to reinforce the sense : I think / I could turn / and live / with an / imals , / they are / so pla / cid and self / -contain'd , / I ...
... iambic pentameter line followed by two iambic tetrameters , all exquisitely varied from the iambic base to reinforce the sense : I think / I could turn / and live / with an / imals , / they are / so pla / cid and self / -contain'd , / I ...
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