Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... suggest the all - important difference : " It is not meters , but a meter - making argument that makes a poem . " In this kind of poem the poet establishes regularity only to depart from it expressively . When he does compose a ...
... suggest the all - important difference : " It is not meters , but a meter - making argument that makes a poem . " In this kind of poem the poet establishes regularity only to depart from it expressively . When he does compose a ...
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... suggest that the past can be recaptured , to suggest that the intolerable fractures and dislocations of modern history have not really occurred at all , or , what is worse , to suggest that they may have occurred but that poetry should ...
... suggest that the past can be recaptured , to suggest that the intolerable fractures and dislocations of modern history have not really occurred at all , or , what is worse , to suggest that they may have occurred but that poetry should ...
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... suggest that it is time for the conventions to be overthrown . The idea of conventions and the conventional thus suggests images of a shriveled orthodoxy , of a reaction- ary obsession with past usages which is necessarily at war with ...
... suggest that it is time for the conventions to be overthrown . The idea of conventions and the conventional thus suggests images of a shriveled orthodoxy , of a reaction- ary obsession with past usages which is necessarily at war with ...
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