Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... Look ! No hands ! " The point , after all , is not what the line looks like metrically but rather what its effects on the reader actually are . The transmission of expressive rhythm to the reader is always the result of artistic il ...
... Look ! No hands ! " The point , after all , is not what the line looks like metrically but rather what its effects on the reader actually are . The transmission of expressive rhythm to the reader is always the result of artistic il ...
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... with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific - and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise- Silent , / upon a peak in Darien . Indeed , this last example happily exhibits the different effects Metrical Variations 65.
... with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific - and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise- Silent , / upon a peak in Darien . Indeed , this last example happily exhibits the different effects Metrical Variations 65.
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... Look , for example , at the beginning of Section 32 of " Song of Myself " : I think I could turn and live with animals , they are so placid and self - contain❜d , I stand and look at them long and long . Underlying these lines is a ...
... Look , for example , at the beginning of Section 32 of " Song of Myself " : I think I could turn and live with animals , they are so placid and self - contain❜d , I stand and look at them long and long . Underlying these lines 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