Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... imply an attitude toward order and reason and the predictable and the recur- rent which he probably will not want his poem to imply . But the other horn of the dilemma is equally pain- ful . Poetry is form , and permanent poetry is The ...
... imply an attitude toward order and reason and the predictable and the recur- rent which he probably will not want his poem to imply . But the other horn of the dilemma is equally pain- ful . Poetry is form , and permanent poetry is The ...
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... imply a relation that is not merely sequential . In that relation is found the justi- fication for the poem's appearing in the form it takes . In more complicated stanza forms , a natural and logical deduction we should make is that ...
... imply a relation that is not merely sequential . In that relation is found the justi- fication for the poem's appearing in the form it takes . In more complicated stanza forms , a natural and logical deduction we should make is that ...
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... implies is that a poet should possess an in- stinct for rhetorical emphasis ; that is , he should sense which parts of the ... imply no need for syntactical support outside themselves , transmit an illusion of greater strength and weight ...
... implies is that a poet should possess an in- stinct for rhetorical emphasis ; that is , he should sense which parts of the ... imply no need for syntactical support outside themselves , transmit an illusion of greater strength and weight ...
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