Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... sound fly - fisher's wrist Turn to a drunken journalist ; A girl that knew all Dante once Live to bear children to a dunce . Hardly a regular line at all here , and yet the variations are conducted with such tact that we are never per ...
... sound fly - fisher's wrist Turn to a drunken journalist ; A girl that knew all Dante once Live to bear children to a dunce . Hardly a regular line at all here , and yet the variations are conducted with such tact that we are never per ...
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... sound relationships which it advertises so blatantly but , surprisingly , important logical and semantic relationships as well . W. K. Wim- satt , in his essay " One Relation of Rhyme to Reason , " has emphasized that every rhyme ...
... sound relationships which it advertises so blatantly but , surprisingly , important logical and semantic relationships as well . W. K. Wim- satt , in his essay " One Relation of Rhyme to Reason , " has emphasized that every rhyme ...
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... sound closure echoing the initial rhymes . The structure is analogous to a musical structure which be- gins in a major key , shifts to minor , and finally returns -gratifyingly , we have been brought up to feel - to major . Other ...
... sound closure echoing the initial rhymes . The structure is analogous to a musical structure which be- gins in a major key , shifts to minor , and finally returns -gratifyingly , we have been brought up to feel - to major . Other ...
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