Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... less as semanticist than as a more or less unwitting prosodist . It is the purpose of this book to help the reader to become , as prosodist , less unwitting . When Boswell asked Johnson , " What is poetry ? " Johnson answered : " Why ...
... less as semanticist than as a more or less unwitting prosodist . It is the purpose of this book to help the reader to become , as prosodist , less unwitting . When Boswell asked Johnson , " What is poetry ? " Johnson answered : " Why ...
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... less regular base rhythm : we can have no variations in entirely " free " or " cadenced " verse . The poet working in free verse has already chosen to eschew one of the most basic expressive tech- niques in poetry . Variations are also ...
... less regular base rhythm : we can have no variations in entirely " free " or " cadenced " verse . The poet working in free verse has already chosen to eschew one of the most basic expressive tech- niques in poetry . Variations are also ...
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... less of a poetic illusionist assembling an artifact than that of a simple , straightforward speaker whose open commitment to what he is saying is so uncomplicated by doubts or irony that it would be a distinct discourtesy not to take ...
... less of a poetic illusionist assembling an artifact than that of a simple , straightforward speaker whose open commitment to what he is saying is so uncomplicated by doubts or irony that it would be a distinct discourtesy not to take ...
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