Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... rhythmical structure to " give " and shape itself according to the rhetorical pressures of the statement . And the rhythmical shaping is noticeable only because it takes place against the background of the " silent " metrical continuum ...
... rhythmical structure to " give " and shape itself according to the rhetorical pressures of the statement . And the rhythmical shaping is noticeable only because it takes place against the background of the " silent " metrical continuum ...
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... rhythmical equivalent of the speed with which the wave flings itself up the sloping sands . And in line 4 the return to the regularity of unvaried iambic meter after these suggestive variations emphasizes rhythmically in this context ...
... rhythmical equivalent of the speed with which the wave flings itself up the sloping sands . And in line 4 the return to the regularity of unvaried iambic meter after these suggestive variations emphasizes rhythmically in this context ...
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... rhythmical garment , not one simply imported without alteration from the very different tonalities of the British language , Williams asserted : " We must break down the line , the sentence , to get at the unit of the measure in order ...
... rhythmical garment , not one simply imported without alteration from the very different tonalities of the British language , Williams asserted : " We must break down the line , the sentence , to get at the unit of the measure in order ...
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