Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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Page 113
... structure of a poem . The texture , he finds , is " local , " unique to a given poem , while the structure involves the larger elements of form which ally the poem with a tradition or with history or with a wider world of recurring ...
... structure of a poem . The texture , he finds , is " local , " unique to a given poem , while the structure involves the larger elements of form which ally the poem with a tradition or with history or with a wider world of recurring ...
Page 131
... structure which enacts a complication fol- lowed by a resolution - an archetype of the common act of problem ... Structural Principles : Example of the Sonnet 131.
... structure which enacts a complication fol- lowed by a resolution - an archetype of the common act of problem ... Structural Principles : Example of the Sonnet 131.
Page 150
... structural uneasiness : we are not satisfied and fulfilled as we seem to be by the struc- ture of Sidney's five - line arrangement . The structure of Wordsworth's " Peter Bell " stanza is actually a variant of the conventional " mad ...
... structural uneasiness : we are not satisfied and fulfilled as we seem to be by the struc- ture of Sidney's five - line arrangement . The structure of Wordsworth's " Peter Bell " stanza is actually a variant of the conventional " mad ...
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