Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... organization : it is either stichic or strophic . In stichic organization , line follows line without any formal or mathematical grouping of the lines into stanzas ; in strophic organ- ization , the lines are arranged in stanzas of ...
... organization : it is either stichic or strophic . In stichic organization , line follows line without any formal or mathematical grouping of the lines into stanzas ; in strophic organ- ization , the lines are arranged in stanzas of ...
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... organization , on the other hand , has been found most appropriate for the enactment of dense and closely ... organized into stanzas without it . Rhyme is a much more com- plicated matter than it appears to be , for it often in- volves ...
... organization , on the other hand , has been found most appropriate for the enactment of dense and closely ... organized into stanzas without it . Rhyme is a much more com- plicated matter than it appears to be , for it often in- volves ...
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... organization . This last is indeed highly artificial and conventional , for when we speak not in poems but " naturally " or colloquially , we do not usually take care to organize what we are uttering logically : we speak not in para ...
... organization . This last is indeed highly artificial and conventional , for when we speak not in poems but " naturally " or colloquially , we do not usually take care to organize what we are uttering logically : we speak not in para ...
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