Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... kind we shall be using , the reader affixes the symbol to syl- lables which , in their context , are unstressed ; he uses the symbol to indicate syllables which , in context , are stressed . A division between poetic feet is indicated ...
... kind we shall be using , the reader affixes the symbol to syl- lables which , in their context , are unstressed ; he uses the symbol to indicate syllables which , in context , are stressed . A division between poetic feet is indicated ...
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... kind of beguilements . In pentameter there is a universe of difference between a hapless or automatic regularity and an expressive one ; between , say , the regularity of these lines from John Bidlake's " The Country Parson , " With ...
... kind of beguilements . In pentameter there is a universe of difference between a hapless or automatic regularity and an expressive one ; between , say , the regularity of these lines from John Bidlake's " The Country Parson , " With ...
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... kind of order that dominates in a given poem . Regarded in the most general way , any poem ex- hibits one of two kinds of basic organization : it is either stichic or strophic . In stichic organization , line follows line without any ...
... kind of order that dominates in a given poem . Regarded in the most general way , any poem ex- hibits one of two kinds of basic organization : it is either stichic or strophic . In stichic organization , line follows line without any ...
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