Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... reason why its shape is as it is and not otherwise . Ideally , then , every substitution or variation from the metrical norm in a poem should justify itself by the sanction of meaning : nothing should happen metrically without a reason ...
... reason why its shape is as it is and not otherwise . Ideally , then , every substitution or variation from the metrical norm in a poem should justify itself by the sanction of meaning : nothing should happen metrically without a reason ...
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... reasons , abandons a dimension of meaning that it simply cannot afford to lose . As he says : Prose is written in ... reason and the predictable and the recur- rent which he probably will not want his poem to imply . But the other ...
... reasons , abandons a dimension of meaning that it simply cannot afford to lose . As he says : Prose is written in ... reason and the predictable and the recur- rent which he probably will not want his poem to imply . But the other ...
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... reasons why a poem has the power to endure , to transcend its own local , historical mo- ment and to join itself to the very small body of per- manent work which calls us back to it again and again . One of the foremost reasons for a ...
... reasons why a poem has the power to endure , to transcend its own local , historical mo- ment and to join itself to the very small body of per- manent work which calls us back to it again and again . One of the foremost reasons for a ...
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