Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 15
Page 69
... irony and derision which attends the terminal trochee when it appears in a generally skeptical context can be exploited by a skillful con- temporary metrist like Donald Hall ; in " Christmas Eve at Whitneyville , 1955 , " addressing his ...
... irony and derision which attends the terminal trochee when it appears in a generally skeptical context can be exploited by a skillful con- temporary metrist like Donald Hall ; in " Christmas Eve at Whitneyville , 1955 , " addressing his ...
Page 70
... irony that it would be a distinct discourtesy not to take his words at face value . There is something in the literary ambitions of late eighteenth and early nine- teenth - century lyric that urges it toward the terminal trochee to ...
... irony that it would be a distinct discourtesy not to take his words at face value . There is something in the literary ambitions of late eighteenth and early nine- teenth - century lyric that urges it toward the terminal trochee to ...
Page 184
... irony which the subsequent monometers will echo and parallel . The irony generated from this first monometer results from the opposition between the brevity of the line , on the one hand , and , on the other , the hopes for longevity ...
... irony which the subsequent monometers will echo and parallel . The irony generated from this first monometer results from the opposition between the brevity of the line , on the one hand , and , on the other , the hopes for longevity ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 20 |
Metrical Variations | 36 |
Copyright | |
9 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
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