Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... because we shall be attending largely to an accentual or an accentual- syllabic rather than a quantitative poetry , and partly because English poetry employs quite different artistic principles from those The Technique of Scansion.
... because we shall be attending largely to an accentual or an accentual- syllabic rather than a quantitative poetry , and partly because English poetry employs quite different artistic principles from those The Technique of Scansion.
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... largely instinc- tual , a technique of his art so unconsciously mastered that he seldom pauses formally to debate a metrical alternative . Indeed , many poets whose work can be analyzed metrically according to the traditional foot ...
... largely instinc- tual , a technique of his art so unconsciously mastered that he seldom pauses formally to debate a metrical alternative . Indeed , many poets whose work can be analyzed metrically according to the traditional foot ...
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... largely maintained the Renais- sance tradition of expressive variations , even they could not help responding to the regularistic climate : they carefully observed a uniformity in the number of syllables per line — that is , they were ...
... largely maintained the Renais- sance tradition of expressive variations , even they could not help responding to the regularistic climate : they carefully observed a uniformity in the number of syllables per line — that is , they were ...
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