Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... principles , one particular and one general . First , we see that the two basic sonnet forms , the Petrarchan and the ... principle of expressive form , or accommodation . That is , the sense and the form must adapt to each other : if a ...
... principles , one particular and one general . First , we see that the two basic sonnet forms , the Petrarchan and the ... principle of expressive form , or accommodation . That is , the sense and the form must adapt to each other : if a ...
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... principle , the principle of enclosure or return , as in the limerick ( aabba ) , where the closure of the final sense is coincident with the sound closure echoing the initial rhymes . The structure is analogous to a musical structure ...
... principle , the principle of enclosure or return , as in the limerick ( aabba ) , where the closure of the final sense is coincident with the sound closure echoing the initial rhymes . The structure is analogous to a musical structure ...
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... principle , but it is amazing how many aspirant prose writers are innocent of it . In the same way , a writer of effective prose has mastered a general principle governing all events which occur in time , whether athletic contests ...
... principle , but it is amazing how many aspirant prose writers are innocent of it . In the same way , a writer of effective prose has mastered a general principle governing all events which occur in time , whether athletic contests ...
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