Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... strophic . In stichic organization , line follows line without any formal or mathematical grouping of the lines into stanzas ; in strophic organ- ization , the lines are arranged in stanzas of varying degrees of logical complexity ...
... strophic . In stichic organization , line follows line without any formal or mathematical grouping of the lines into stanzas ; in strophic organ- ization , the lines are arranged in stanzas of varying degrees of logical complexity ...
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... strophic struc- ture is associated with music - the codas and repeats of music are analogous to the rhymes and refrains of lyric strophes - we expect the materials which normally find their way into songs likewise to find their way into ...
... strophic struc- ture is associated with music - the codas and repeats of music are analogous to the rhymes and refrains of lyric strophes - we expect the materials which normally find their way into songs likewise to find their way into ...
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... strophic arrangements : the hex- ameter contains an even number of feet , and very fre- quently an even number of stresses , and it thus tends to break in the middle into two exactly even - hence monotonous - segments in a way that the ...
... strophic arrangements : the hex- ameter contains an even number of feet , and very fre- quently an even number of stresses , and it thus tends to break in the middle into two exactly even - hence monotonous - segments in a way that the ...
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