Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... ment that scansion can justify itself . The sort of per- ception that scansion makes possible by translating sound into visual terms can be illustrated in the Ru- baiyat stanza with which we began . Consider what hap- pens in the last ...
... ment that scansion can justify itself . The sort of per- ception that scansion makes possible by translating sound into visual terms can be illustrated in the Ru- baiyat stanza with which we began . Consider what hap- pens in the last ...
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... ment of illusions of rapidity , lightness , or ease by the use of the pyrrhic foot in substitution , or by any un- expected juxtaposition of unstressed syllables . The classic example is provided by Pope in the " Essay on Criticism ...
... ment of illusions of rapidity , lightness , or ease by the use of the pyrrhic foot in substitution , or by any un- expected juxtaposition of unstressed syllables . The classic example is provided by Pope in the " Essay on Criticism ...
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... ment helps transmit a very different effect , an effect of strenuousness , of an energy that disdains contain- ment , bursting through the line endings as if they constituted impious bars to liberty . In the same way , the term “ heroic ...
... ment helps transmit a very different effect , an effect of strenuousness , of an energy that disdains contain- ment , bursting through the line endings as if they constituted impious bars to liberty . In the same way , the term “ heroic ...
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