Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... occur initially : even in lines so boldly run - on as these , an initial substitution has the effect of occurring after a pause - the pause which the eye makes in mov- ing from the end of one line to the beginning of the next . Like a ...
... occur initially : even in lines so boldly run - on as these , an initial substitution has the effect of occurring after a pause - the pause which the eye makes in mov- ing from the end of one line to the beginning of the next . Like a ...
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... occurs at the start of line 9 , the beginning of the sestet . It is per- haps more accurate to say that the turn occurs some- where in the white space that separates line 8 from line 9 , and that line 9 simply reflects or records it ...
... occurs at the start of line 9 , the beginning of the sestet . It is per- haps more accurate to say that the turn occurs some- where in the white space that separates line 8 from line 9 , and that line 9 simply reflects or records it ...
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... occur at the end and that stress inversion , a much less emphatic phenome- non , will occur most often at the beginning . For a poet to forget - or not to know - this fact about the ends of lines is for him to risk structural disaster ...
... occur at the end and that stress inversion , a much less emphatic phenome- non , will occur most often at the beginning . For a poet to forget - or not to know - this fact about the ends of lines is for him to risk structural disaster ...
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