Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... poet makes about enjambment , whether he is rhyming or not , will tend to imply his sense of relation to inherited stichic tradition , for the tradition in stichic poetry is that a high degree of line integrity prevail . By his ...
... poet makes about enjambment , whether he is rhyming or not , will tend to imply his sense of relation to inherited stichic tradition , for the tradition in stichic poetry is that a high degree of line integrity prevail . By his ...
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Paul Fussell. something important has happened to the poet's pos- ture toward received poetic forms . What it is has been suggested recently by J. V. Cun- ningham in " The Problem of Form . " The poet's at- titude toward fixed metrical ...
Paul Fussell. something important has happened to the poet's pos- ture toward received poetic forms . What it is has been suggested recently by J. V. Cun- ningham in " The Problem of Form . " The poet's at- titude toward fixed metrical ...
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... poet ; their stanzas are more frequently given the poet by history than supplied by momentary in- spiration ; and their varieties of logical organization are as artificial and labored over as the cornice of a stone building , or the ...
... poet ; their stanzas are more frequently given the poet by history than supplied by momentary in- spiration ; and their varieties of logical organization are as artificial and labored over as the cornice of a stone building , or the ...
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