Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... Rhyme to Reason , " has emphasized that every rhyme invites the reader's consideration of semantic as well as of sound similar- ities . A good example of this logical dimension often present in rhyme is a stanza from Pound's Mauberley ...
... Rhyme to Reason , " has emphasized that every rhyme invites the reader's consideration of semantic as well as of sound similar- ities . A good example of this logical dimension often present in rhyme is a stanza from Pound's Mauberley ...
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... rhyme scheme tends to assert . Three lines of any length ending with the same rhyme word are called triplets , or , interchangably , tercets . It is probably better to use tercet only to dis- tinguish three lines organized other than by ...
... rhyme scheme tends to assert . Three lines of any length ending with the same rhyme word are called triplets , or , interchangably , tercets . It is probably better to use tercet only to dis- tinguish three lines organized other than by ...
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... rhyme has not . Rhyme is a more striking formal effect than inversion of stress : the emphasis pattern of any line helps dictate that rhyme will occur at the end and that stress inversion , a much less emphatic phenome- non , will occur ...
... rhyme has not . Rhyme is a more striking formal effect than inversion of stress : the emphasis pattern of any line helps dictate that rhyme will occur at the end and that stress inversion , a much less emphatic phenome- non , will occur ...
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