Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... speak metrically , to present them speaking metrically is to transform them entirely from creatures of nature into creatures of art . And when it is the poet's voice that we hear speaking metri- cally , the meter announces or implies ...
... speak metrically , to present them speaking metrically is to transform them entirely from creatures of nature into creatures of art . And when it is the poet's voice that we hear speaking metri- cally , the meter announces or implies ...
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... speak not in poems but " naturally " or colloquially , we do not usually take care to organize what we are uttering logically : we speak not in para- graphs but in bursts . We do not conduct a discourse : we make remarks . And as ...
... speak not in poems but " naturally " or colloquially , we do not usually take care to organize what we are uttering logically : we speak not in para- graphs but in bursts . We do not conduct a discourse : we make remarks . And as ...
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... speak of the " tyranny ” of the iambic foot might speak just as well of the tyranny of friction which enables us to run , or the tyranny of gravity which permits dancing and high - jumping to differ beautifully from walking . But ...
... speak of the " tyranny ” of the iambic foot might speak just as well of the tyranny of friction which enables us to run , or the tyranny of gravity which permits dancing and high - jumping to differ beautifully from walking . But ...
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