Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... musical scansion , on the other hand , eighth notes may be used to represent unstressed syllables , and quarter or half notes to represent stressed syllables of varying weights . Caesuras are sometimes indicated by musical rests of ...
... musical scansion , on the other hand , eighth notes may be used to represent unstressed syllables , and quarter or half notes to represent stressed syllables of varying weights . Caesuras are sometimes indicated by musical rests of ...
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... Musical scansion may do no harm to those already learned in music and musical theory ; acoustic scansion may be useful to the linguist and the scientist of language ; but graphic scansion is best for those who intend to become not ...
... Musical scansion may do no harm to those already learned in music and musical theory ; acoustic scansion may be useful to the linguist and the scientist of language ; but graphic scansion is best for those who intend to become not ...
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... musical analogies to verse and in musical methods of scansion : Sidney Lanier is a pioneer in this work . And the cause of accentualism was bolstered by the rise to academic fashion of Ger- manic philology , which served to remind both ...
... musical analogies to verse and in musical methods of scansion : Sidney Lanier is a pioneer in this work . And the cause of accentualism was bolstered by the rise to academic fashion of Ger- manic philology , which served to remind both ...
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