Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... stanza consists of eight iambic - pentameter lines rhyming ababbcbc and a final alexandrine rhyming c . Spenser perhaps contrived the stanza by adding the final rhyming alex- andrine to the eight lines of the stanza of Chaucer's ...
... stanza consists of eight iambic - pentameter lines rhyming ababbcbc and a final alexandrine rhyming c . Spenser perhaps contrived the stanza by adding the final rhyming alex- andrine to the eight lines of the stanza of Chaucer's ...
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... stanza : the first independent clause in the stanza is coincident with the one longer line : " But ranged as infantry , 3 And staring face to face , I shot at him as he at me , And killed him in his place . " In the third stanza , as ...
... stanza : the first independent clause in the stanza is coincident with the one longer line : " But ranged as infantry , 3 And staring face to face , I shot at him as he at me , And killed him in his place . " In the third stanza , as ...
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... stanza : the theme of friendly pub drinking as the furthest possible antithesis to war . It is not the shoot- ing ... stanza in a vigorously organic way , the Collins poem does not , and its failure to exploit the shape of its own stanza ...
... stanza : the theme of friendly pub drinking as the furthest possible antithesis to war . It is not the shoot- ing ... stanza in a vigorously organic way , the Collins poem does not , and its failure to exploit the shape of its own stanza ...
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