Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... stichic , with a “ line ” of twenty rather than of ten syllables . Stichic organization has been found most appropri- ate for large , expansive narrative , dramatic , and medi- tative actions : Paradise Lost , King Lear , The Prelude ...
... stichic , with a “ line ” of twenty rather than of ten syllables . Stichic organization has been found most appropri- ate for large , expansive narrative , dramatic , and medi- tative actions : Paradise Lost , King Lear , The Prelude ...
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... stichic and in strophic organization . The poet writing in stichic form - at least since the demise of Old English prosody - must make decisions constantly about enjambment , or run - on lines . As he composes each line he must decide ...
... stichic and in strophic organization . The poet writing in stichic form - at least since the demise of Old English prosody - must make decisions constantly about enjambment , or run - on lines . As he composes each line he must decide ...
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... stichic tradition , for the tradition in stichic poetry is that a high degree of line integrity prevail . By his particular strategy of enjamb- ment , consequently , the poet takes a stance toward a tradition as well as expressing an ...
... stichic tradition , for the tradition in stichic poetry is that a high degree of line integrity prevail . By his particular strategy of enjamb- ment , consequently , the poet takes a stance toward a tradition as well as expressing an ...
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