Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... technical tradition of initial stressing which coincides with an active verb helps us to perceive the technical orthodoxy of a poet sometimes taxed with imputations of heterodoxy . Consider the opening of line 2 of Dylan Thomas's " The ...
... technical tradition of initial stressing which coincides with an active verb helps us to perceive the technical orthodoxy of a poet sometimes taxed with imputations of heterodoxy . Consider the opening of line 2 of Dylan Thomas's " The ...
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... technical lessons , there is little doubt that he is the great English master of the terminal trochee , which he is fond of using in the very first lines of poems as if to establish at the outset of his apostrophic addresses a tone of ...
... technical lessons , there is little doubt that he is the great English master of the terminal trochee , which he is fond of using in the very first lines of poems as if to establish at the outset of his apostrophic addresses a tone of ...
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... technical perfection , lavished as it is on a fairly " low " enterprise . For the contemporary reader , part of the fun also arose from specific verbal parody : Stephen's line 12 , for example , very neatly recalls the turn of ...
... technical perfection , lavished as it is on a fairly " low " enterprise . For the contemporary reader , part of the fun also arose from specific verbal parody : Stephen's line 12 , for example , very neatly recalls the turn of ...
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