Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... logical action : it initiates an answer to the question posed implicitly by the octave : " How on earth can we be happy when we know that we are doomed ? " On the other hand , the turn in Keats's " On First Looking into Chapman's Homer ...
... logical action : it initiates an answer to the question posed implicitly by the octave : " How on earth can we be happy when we know that we are doomed ? " On the other hand , the turn in Keats's " On First Looking into Chapman's Homer ...
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... logical accommodation of statement to form , of ele- ments to wholes , that we have been considering . Al- though successful poems do not always inhabit a world of logic , their forms do ; and just as the world of logic is constructed ...
... logical accommodation of statement to form , of ele- ments to wholes , that we have been considering . Al- though successful poems do not always inhabit a world of logic , their forms do ; and just as the world of logic is constructed ...
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... logical rhetorical organization . This last is indeed highly artificial and conventional , for when we speak not in poems but " naturally " or colloquially , we do not usually take care to organize what we are uttering logically : we ...
... logical rhetorical organization . This last is indeed highly artificial and conventional , for when we speak not in poems but " naturally " or colloquially , we do not usually take care to organize what we are uttering logically : we ...
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