Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... stand a good chance of engaging repeatedly the best wits of a good reader - and given the benefits of an accurate taste in the contrivance and disposition of its metaphors , a poem stands a chance of attaining greater success and ...
... stand a good chance of engaging repeatedly the best wits of a good reader - and given the benefits of an accurate taste in the contrivance and disposition of its metaphors , a poem stands a chance of attaining greater success and ...
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... stands , With trickling gems bedropt in twinkling play ; There nodding onions rang'd like marshall'd bands . The sluggard carrot sleeps his days in bed ; The crippled pea alone that cannot stand ; With vegetable marrow , rich and grand ...
... stands , With trickling gems bedropt in twinkling play ; There nodding onions rang'd like marshall'd bands . The sluggard carrot sleeps his days in bed ; The crippled pea alone that cannot stand ; With vegetable marrow , rich and grand ...
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... stand and look at them long and long . Underlying these lines is a traditional framework of an iambic pentameter line followed by two iambic tetrameters , all exquisitely varied from the iambic base to reinforce the sense : I think / I ...
... stand and look at them long and long . Underlying these lines is a traditional framework of an iambic pentameter line followed by two iambic tetrameters , all exquisitely varied from the iambic base to reinforce the sense : I think / 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