Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... length ( length of time consumed by the utterance of the syllable ) , and timbre or quality ( that is , fuzziness , hoarseness , sharp- ness ) . Clearly when some of these phonetic qualities are emphasized we say that the syllable is ...
... length ( length of time consumed by the utterance of the syllable ) , and timbre or quality ( that is , fuzziness , hoarseness , sharp- ness ) . Clearly when some of these phonetic qualities are emphasized we say that the syllable is ...
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... length . But the difference in length determines other important differences . For example , the octo- syllabic couplet operates to circumscribe predication to its skeletal form of subject , verb , and object ; it enforces a sparseness ...
... length . But the difference in length determines other important differences . For example , the octo- syllabic couplet operates to circumscribe predication to its skeletal form of subject , verb , and object ; it enforces a sparseness ...
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... length the shortness of the day whose course is a hasty running rather than a more ample and leisurely movement . By ... length of the lines becomes an indispensable element of meaning . The contribution of line length to meaning is a ...
... length the shortness of the day whose course is a hasty running rather than a more ample and leisurely movement . By ... length of the lines becomes an indispensable element of meaning . The contribution of line length to meaning is a ...
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