Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... stanzaic forms and thematic kinds . For exam- ple , a thematic kind like the aubade , a traditional morning song expressing the disinclination of lovers to separate , may embody itself in any kind of stanzaic structure . The same is ...
... stanzaic forms and thematic kinds . For exam- ple , a thematic kind like the aubade , a traditional morning song expressing the disinclination of lovers to separate , may embody itself in any kind of stanzaic structure . The same is ...
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... stanzaic division in " Loot . " In matters of emphasis , then , we find it all too true that poetry should be at least as well written as prose . But the poet's formal problem , although in one way resembling the prose writer's , is ...
... stanzaic division in " Loot . " In matters of emphasis , then , we find it all too true that poetry should be at least as well written as prose . But the poet's formal problem , although in one way resembling the prose writer's , is ...
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... stanzaic elements . Consider not merely Bacon but Herrick , whose " To Daffodils " performs its bipartite action with an equally exquisite structural taste : Fair daffodils , we weep to see You haste away so soon ; As yet the early ...
... stanzaic elements . Consider not merely Bacon but Herrick , whose " To Daffodils " performs its bipartite action with an equally exquisite structural taste : Fair daffodils , we weep to see You haste away so soon ; As yet the early ...
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