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... number of syllables varies from line to line . In the following lines by Yeats , for example , we find four stresses per line , although the number of syllables varies from seven to nine : Why should not old men be mad ? Some have known ...
... number of syllables varies from line to line . In the following lines by Yeats , for example , we find four stresses per line , although the number of syllables varies from seven to nine : Why should not old men be mad ? Some have known ...
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... number of syllables . Although the technical terms for various kinds of con- tractions are not essential , it is useful to know them . We distinguish two basic kinds of contractions , syn- aeresis ( sometimes called synaloepha ) and ...
... number of syllables . Although the technical terms for various kinds of con- tractions are not essential , it is useful to know them . We distinguish two basic kinds of contractions , syn- aeresis ( sometimes called synaloepha ) and ...
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... number of either stresses or feet and becomes the number of syllables . Metrical theorists and dogmatists like Edward Bysshe , Richard Bentley , and Henry Pemberton advocated a rigid regularity in the heroic line , and minor poets like ...
... number of either stresses or feet and becomes the number of syllables . Metrical theorists and dogmatists like Edward Bysshe , Richard Bentley , and Henry Pemberton advocated a rigid regularity in the heroic line , and minor poets like ...
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