Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... possible by translating sound into visual terms can be illustrated in the Ru- baiyat stanza with which we began . Consider what hap- pens in the last two lines of that stanza : That ev / ery Hy / acinth / the Gar 34 PART ONE POETIC METER.
... possible by translating sound into visual terms can be illustrated in the Ru- baiyat stanza with which we began . Consider what hap- pens in the last two lines of that stanza : That ev / ery Hy / acinth / the Gar 34 PART ONE POETIC METER.
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... possible ; he is performing the metrical equivalent of shouting , " Look ! No hands ! " The point , after all , is not what the line looks like metrically but rather what its effects on the reader actually are . The transmission of ...
... possible ; he is performing the metrical equivalent of shouting , " Look ! No hands ! " The point , after all , is not what the line looks like metrically but rather what its effects on the reader actually are . The transmission of ...
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... possible in a basically " alternating " accentual - syllabic system . Hopkins points out that sprung rhythm is common in nursery rhymes . A good example is One , two , Buckle my shoe . where the first line is in sprung , the second in ...
... possible in a basically " alternating " accentual - syllabic system . Hopkins points out that sprung rhythm is common in nursery rhymes . A good example is One , two , Buckle my shoe . where the first line is in sprung , the second in ...
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