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... shape necessarily makes loud structural claims . The difference is that this poem puts its money where its mouth - or shape- is : it attains form rather than pseudo - form , and its reward is that it has become a permanent poem . It is ...
... shape necessarily makes loud structural claims . The difference is that this poem puts its money where its mouth - or shape- is : it attains form rather than pseudo - form , and its reward is that it has become a permanent poem . It is ...
Page 175
... shape they imply a relation that is not merely sequential . In that relation is found the justi- fication for the poem's appearing in the form it takes . In more complicated stanza forms , a natural and logical deduction we should make ...
... shape they imply a relation that is not merely sequential . In that relation is found the justi- fication for the poem's appearing in the form it takes . In more complicated stanza forms , a natural and logical deduction we should make ...
Page 177
... shape of its own stanza is probably as much a cause of its lack of permanent strength as its more obvious de- fects of grandiose diction and absence of drama . Collins's stanza is an unrhymed unequal quatrain : the first two lines are ...
... shape of its own stanza is probably as much a cause of its lack of permanent strength as its more obvious de- fects of grandiose diction and absence of drama . Collins's stanza is an unrhymed unequal quatrain : the first two lines are ...
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