Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... position to position in successive lines . In formal verse , whether classical , Romance , or Old English , the medial position of the caesura is generally predictable ; in verse aspiring to a greater flexibility and informal- ity , we ...
... position to position in successive lines . In formal verse , whether classical , Romance , or Old English , the medial position of the caesura is generally predictable ; in verse aspiring to a greater flexibility and informal- ity , we ...
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... position in line 3 is the rhythmical equivalent of the speed with which the wave flings itself up the sloping sands ... positions of line 2 we find anapests replacing iambs , and the two trisyllabic sub- stitutions swell the line to ...
... position in line 3 is the rhythmical equivalent of the speed with which the wave flings itself up the sloping sands ... positions of line 2 we find anapests replacing iambs , and the two trisyllabic sub- stitutions swell the line to ...
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... position , in a medial position , and at the end . In the first position trochaic substitution is ex- tremely common - indeed , this one variation is the most common in all English poetry . It is less common in the medial positions ...
... position , in a medial position , and at the end . In the first position trochaic substitution is ex- tremely common - indeed , this one variation is the most common in all English poetry . It is less common in the medial positions ...
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