Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... spondaic substitution : When Á / jax stríves / some rock's / vast weight / to throw , / The líne / too lá / bours , and / the words / move slow ; / Although a large part of the reinforcement is rhythmi- cal here - the result of the spondaic ...
... spondaic substitution : When Á / jax stríves / some rock's / vast weight / to throw , / The líne / too lá / bours , and / the words / move slow ; / Although a large part of the reinforcement is rhythmi- cal here - the result of the spondaic ...
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... spondaic substitution : Just writes to make his barrenness appear , And strains from hard- / bound brains , / eight lines / a year . And the assonance which links strains , brains , and eight associates the three words rhetorically as ...
... spondaic substitution : Just writes to make his barrenness appear , And strains from hard- / bound brains , / eight lines / a year . And the assonance which links strains , brains , and eight associates the three words rhetorically as ...
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... spondaic substitution to return to a very pronounced iambic regularity to re - establish the metrical norm after these excursions into spondaic difficulty and strain . For ex- ample : So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog or steep , through ...
... spondaic substitution to return to a very pronounced iambic regularity to re - establish the metrical norm after these excursions into spondaic difficulty and strain . For ex- ample : So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog or steep , through ...
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