Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... stress or accent is . Here again we must proceed without much more certainty than saying that stress is the vocal emphasis with which a syllable is spoken - either aloud or silently - relative to the emphasis received by contiguous ...
... stress or accent is . Here again we must proceed without much more certainty than saying that stress is the vocal emphasis with which a syllable is spoken - either aloud or silently - relative to the emphasis received by contiguous ...
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... stress meter [ i.e. , of Beowulf or Piers Plowman ] is . its limited capacity for interplay . The stress pattern of the meter is so nearly the same as the stress pattern of the syntax and logic that there is nothing much for the meter ...
... stress meter [ i.e. , of Beowulf or Piers Plowman ] is . its limited capacity for interplay . The stress pattern of the meter is so nearly the same as the stress pattern of the syntax and logic that there is nothing much for the meter ...
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... stress Old English line . And some have suggested that what we are talking about when we speak of " metrical variations ” is really the line's apparent indecision about whether to adopt a four- or a five - stress structure - an ...
... stress Old English line . And some have suggested that what we are talking about when we speak of " metrical variations ” is really the line's apparent indecision about whether to adopt a four- or a five - stress structure - 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