Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... matter how irrationally or illogically - the line transmits . Pyrrhic substitution is used with great skill by Pope also in " Moral Essay IV " to produce an effect not only of levity but even of the fast triple - time of a jig . Timon's ...
... matter how irrationally or illogically - the line transmits . Pyrrhic substitution is used with great skill by Pope also in " Moral Essay IV " to produce an effect not only of levity but even of the fast triple - time of a jig . Timon's ...
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... matter how extrinsi- cally discovered and traditionally exploited by the poet , should give the illusion of having arisen intrinsi- cally and subtly from within the uniqueness of the poetic occasion . Specifically , within the ...
... matter how extrinsi- cally discovered and traditionally exploited by the poet , should give the illusion of having arisen intrinsi- cally and subtly from within the uniqueness of the poetic occasion . Specifically , within the ...
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... matter of the couplet should differ from the matter of the quatrains in order for the rhyme scheme to justify itself aesthetically and take its place as a fully expressive , organic element in the 130 PART TWO POETIC FORM.
... matter of the couplet should differ from the matter of the quatrains in order for the rhyme scheme to justify itself aesthetically and take its place as a fully expressive , organic element in the 130 PART TWO POETIC FORM.
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