Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... OCTAVE a b b SECOND QUATRAIN TURN a 13 d C SESTET d d The rhyme scheme of the sestet is variable : sometimes it takes the form cdecde , or cdeced , or cdcdee . Struc- turally , the Petrarchan sonnet consists of three parts ( two ...
... OCTAVE a b b SECOND QUATRAIN TURN a 13 d C SESTET d d The rhyme scheme of the sestet is variable : sometimes it takes the form cdecde , or cdeced , or cdcdee . Struc- turally , the Petrarchan sonnet consists of three parts ( two ...
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... octave , or which will release the pressure accumulated in the octave . The octave and the sestet conduct actions which are analogous to the actions of inhaling and exhaling , or of contraction and release in the muscular system . The ...
... octave , or which will release the pressure accumulated in the octave . The octave and the sestet conduct actions which are analogous to the actions of inhaling and exhaling , or of contraction and release in the muscular system . The ...
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... octave . There is always the temptation in the second quatrain merely to repeat or to reproject the matter of the first instead of advancing or really com- plicating the argument , description , or emotion . The sestet is usually ...
... octave . There is always the temptation in the second quatrain merely to repeat or to reproject the matter of the first instead of advancing or really com- plicating the argument , description , or emotion . The sestet is usually ...
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