Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... stanzaic form is equal to blank verse where epic is concerned: Spenser's stanza is infinitely finer than the ottava rima, but even Spenser's will not allow the epic movement as exhibited by Homer, Virgil and Milton. How noble is the ...
... stanzaic form is equal to blank verse where epic is concerned: Spenser's stanza is infinitely finer than the ottava rima, but even Spenser's will not allow the epic movement as exhibited by Homer, Virgil and Milton. How noble is the ...
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... stanzaic forms ( ballad stanza , ottava rima , the Spenserian and so on ) . We shall begin with the shortest stanzaic form , the couplet . A couplet is a pair of linked verses which are generally of the same length and which are linked ...
... stanzaic forms ( ballad stanza , ottava rima , the Spenserian and so on ) . We shall begin with the shortest stanzaic form , the couplet . A couplet is a pair of linked verses which are generally of the same length and which are linked ...
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... stanzaic form and one line with independent rhyme called stanzaic connection or stanzaic line and this structure is repeated many times with different rhymes . However , the rhymes of the stanzaic lines are the same . The rhyme of ...
... stanzaic form and one line with independent rhyme called stanzaic connection or stanzaic line and this structure is repeated many times with different rhymes . However , the rhymes of the stanzaic lines are the same . The rhyme of ...
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