Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... reader from the first few words of his poem . Given the nature of each metrical contract , the reader tends to do certain things and not others as he reads . I. A. Richards has emphasized likewise the way the read- er's response is ...
... reader from the first few words of his poem . Given the nature of each metrical contract , the reader tends to do certain things and not others as he reads . I. A. Richards has emphasized likewise the way the read- er's response is ...
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... reader that the reader refuses to consider the four ' weep's as a series of sounds equally stressed ( contrast the read- er's very different treatment of King Lear's " Then kill , kill , kill , kill , kill , kill ! " ) ; instead , the ...
... reader that the reader refuses to consider the four ' weep's as a series of sounds equally stressed ( contrast the read- er's very different treatment of King Lear's " Then kill , kill , kill , kill , kill , kill ! " ) ; instead , the ...
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... reader's comfort within the conventions that makes it possible for the poem to transmit its signals at all . " The innocent eye sees nothing . " The unwitting reader finds poems " obscure . " It is the trained reader alone who fits ...
... reader's comfort within the conventions that makes it possible for the poem to transmit its signals at all . " The innocent eye sees nothing . " The unwitting reader finds poems " obscure . " It is the trained reader alone who fits ...
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