Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... initial trochee here is enlisted on behalf of horror compli- cated by overtones of tenderness and sympathy . An illusion of sheer physical power , on the other hand , is the effect of the initial trochee which rein- forces the active ...
... initial trochee here is enlisted on behalf of horror compli- cated by overtones of tenderness and sympathy . An illusion of sheer physical power , on the other hand , is the effect of the initial trochee which rein- forces the active ...
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... initial trochee , betrays as little sympathy with man's fate : The piers are pummelled by the waves ; In a lonely field the rain Lashes / an abandoned train . Finally , an awareness of the long technical tradition of initial stressing ...
... initial trochee , betrays as little sympathy with man's fate : The piers are pummelled by the waves ; In a lonely field the rain Lashes / an abandoned train . Finally , an awareness of the long technical tradition of initial stressing ...
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... initial trochee when it coin- cides with different syntactical elements . The initial verbal trochee of line 3 ( Look'd at ) functions , like Mil- ton's , to transmit an effect of sudden vigor ; but the initial modifying trochee of the ...
... initial trochee when it coin- cides with different syntactical elements . The initial verbal trochee of line 3 ( Look'd at ) functions , like Mil- ton's , to transmit an effect of sudden vigor ; but the initial modifying trochee of the ...
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