Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... perhaps we can suggest that what happens is this : what we " hear " is a silent voice - our own - enunciating the words for the benefit of our listening muscular system . The " body swayed to music " of Yeats's " Among School Children ...
... perhaps we can suggest that what happens is this : what we " hear " is a silent voice - our own - enunciating the words for the benefit of our listening muscular system . The " body swayed to music " of Yeats's " Among School Children ...
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... perhaps even " tired " blood by recourse to spondaic substitution . Thus Juliet in the fourth act , suspecting trouble ahead , says : I have / a faint / cold fear / thrills through / my veins./ And the Ghost addressing Hamlet reverses ...
... perhaps even " tired " blood by recourse to spondaic substitution . Thus Juliet in the fourth act , suspecting trouble ahead , says : I have / a faint / cold fear / thrills through / my veins./ And the Ghost addressing Hamlet reverses ...
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... perhaps merely by our edu- cation within a particular culture , perhaps because we grow familiar with a particular convention or because a particular artist teaches us to recognize them in his own colors , tones , or themes . Until we ...
... perhaps merely by our edu- cation within a particular culture , perhaps because we grow familiar with a particular convention or because a particular artist teaches us to recognize them in his own colors , tones , or themes . Until we ...
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