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... spondee or pyrrhic , in which the two syllables are of exactly the same weight , there would seem to be no need for such overscrupulous formulations as the terms " pseudo- spondee " or " false spondee , " which suggest that our work as ...
... spondee or pyrrhic , in which the two syllables are of exactly the same weight , there would seem to be no need for such overscrupulous formulations as the terms " pseudo- spondee " or " false spondee , " which suggest that our work as ...
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... spondee in Wordsworth's " A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal . " Here Wordsworth , like Milton , seems careful to return to the strictest kind of iambic regularity after the substitution , as if to throw the spondee into even bolder relief ...
... spondee in Wordsworth's " A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal . " Here Wordsworth , like Milton , seems careful to return to the strictest kind of iambic regularity after the substitution , as if to throw the spondee into even bolder relief ...
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... spondee is a favorite foot for this purpose . Frequently it is used in juxtaposition with a pyrrhic , which serves to prepare for the spondee as if by depriving us of a stress and thus making us de- sire two in succession all the more ...
... spondee is a favorite foot for this purpose . Frequently it is used in juxtaposition with a pyrrhic , which serves to prepare for the spondee as if by depriving us of a stress and thus making us de- sire two in succession all the more ...
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