Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... prose rhythms are modified by the metrical law , and the de- gree to which the metrical law is forced to become amended by those elements in the prose rhythm that will not yield . " What Mr. Malof is saying is that , once the metrical ...
... prose rhythms are modified by the metrical law , and the de- gree to which the metrical law is forced to become amended by those elements in the prose rhythm that will not yield . " What Mr. Malof is saying is that , once the metrical ...
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... prose " has , to be sure , high comic value ; but there is fundamental wisdom implicit in it too . One thing it implies is that a poet should possess an in- stinct for rhetorical emphasis ; that is , he should sense which parts of the ...
... prose " has , to be sure , high comic value ; but there is fundamental wisdom implicit in it too . One thing it implies is that a poet should possess an in- stinct for rhetorical emphasis ; that is , he should sense which parts of the ...
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... prose . But the poet's formal problem , although in one way resembling the prose writer's , is infinitely more com- plex : while the prose writer is adjusting his matter to only one " stanza form " -the sentence - the poet must be a ...
... prose . But the poet's formal problem , although in one way resembling the prose writer's , is infinitely more com- plex : while the prose writer is adjusting his matter to only one " stanza form " -the sentence - the poet must be a ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 20 |
Metrical Variations | 36 |
Copyright | |
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