Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... song expressing the disinclination of lovers to separate , may embody itself in any kind of stanzaic structure . The same is true of thematic kinds like the epigram , the elegy , the pastoral , the ode , and the song . It is true that ...
... song expressing the disinclination of lovers to separate , may embody itself in any kind of stanzaic structure . The same is true of thematic kinds like the epigram , the elegy , the pastoral , the ode , and the song . It is true that ...
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... song " stanza , a stanza associated since the early Renaissance with a traditional poem sung by a madman . Here is an example from an anonymous sixteenth - century " Tom o ' Bedlam's Song " : I know more than Apollo , For , oft when he ...
... song " stanza , a stanza associated since the early Renaissance with a traditional poem sung by a madman . Here is an example from an anonymous sixteenth - century " Tom o ' Bedlam's Song " : I know more than Apollo , For , oft when he ...
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... Song , 150 triplet , 139-41 Van Dyke , Henry , 37-38 , 39 Venus and Adonis stanza , 152 , 157 , 161 , 163 Waller , Edmund , 83 ; On a Girdle , 143 Warton , Joseph , To Fancy , 99 , 100 Watts , Isaac , Day of Judgment , 146 ; When I ...
... Song , 150 triplet , 139-41 Van Dyke , Henry , 37-38 , 39 Venus and Adonis stanza , 152 , 157 , 161 , 163 Waller , Edmund , 83 ; On a Girdle , 143 Warton , Joseph , To Fancy , 99 , 100 Watts , Isaac , Day of Judgment , 146 ; When I ...
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