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... SESTET d d The rhyme scheme of the sestet is variable : sometimes it takes the form cdecde , or cdeced , or cdcdee . Struc- turally , the Petrarchan sonnet consists of three parts ( two quatrains and the sestet ) which underlie an un ...
... SESTET d d The rhyme scheme of the sestet is variable : sometimes it takes the form cdecde , or cdeced , or cdcdee . Struc- turally , the Petrarchan sonnet consists of three parts ( two quatrains and the sestet ) which underlie an un ...
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... sestet . It is per- haps more accurate to say that the turn occurs some- where in the white space that separates line 8 from line 9 , and that line 9 simply reflects or records it . But wherever we think of it as actually taking place ...
... sestet . It is per- haps more accurate to say that the turn occurs some- where in the white space that separates line 8 from line 9 , and that line 9 simply reflects or records it . But wherever we think of it as actually taking place ...
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... sestet begins : It moves us not . - Great God ! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn . • Writing a good Petrarchan sonnet is difficult ; writ- ing a superb one is all but impossible . So demanding is the form that only the ...
... sestet begins : It moves us not . - Great God ! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn . • Writing a good Petrarchan sonnet is difficult ; writ- ing a superb one is all but impossible . So demanding is the form that only the ...
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