Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... quatrain that poses a challenge to every poet's capacity for genuine - rather than merely apparent - thematic development . That second quatrain always constitutes a dangerous invita- tion to repetition or mere embellishment . The ...
... quatrain that poses a challenge to every poet's capacity for genuine - rather than merely apparent - thematic development . That second quatrain always constitutes a dangerous invita- tion to repetition or mere embellishment . The ...
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... quatrains and a final couplet . The difference is that the Spenserian form overlaps the rhymes at the junctions of the qua- trains , thus : a b FIRST QUATRAIN a b INTERNAL COUPLET b C SECOND QUATRAIN b INTERNAL COUPLET { C C d THIRD ...
... quatrains and a final couplet . The difference is that the Spenserian form overlaps the rhymes at the junctions of the qua- trains , thus : a b FIRST QUATRAIN a b INTERNAL COUPLET b C SECOND QUATRAIN b INTERNAL COUPLET { C C d THIRD ...
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... quatrain is what we can call the couplet quatrain : That which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind ; No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done . And when we add a foot to the lines ...
... quatrain is what we can call the couplet quatrain : That which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind ; No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done . And when we add a foot to the lines ...
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