Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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Paul Fussell. 2 The Technique of Scansion Scansion cansion , which can be defined as any system of representing by visual symbols more or less conventional poetic rhythms for purposes of metrical analysis and ... Technique of Scansion.
Paul Fussell. 2 The Technique of Scansion Scansion cansion , which can be defined as any system of representing by visual symbols more or less conventional poetic rhythms for purposes of metrical analysis and ... Technique of Scansion.
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... technique : And every sand becomes a gem Reflected in the beams divine ; Blown back / they blind the mocking eye , But still in Israel's paths they shine . ( " Mock On , Mock On , Voltaire , Rousseau " ) Yeats uses it in " The Statues ...
... technique : And every sand becomes a gem Reflected in the beams divine ; Blown back / they blind the mocking eye , But still in Israel's paths they shine . ( " Mock On , Mock On , Voltaire , Rousseau " ) Yeats uses it in " The Statues ...
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... technique in redeeming a poem from oblivion . A mastery of technique is rare enough in any art . But in poetry , which demands not only a superb taste in the ever - shifting symbolic system of the connotations of language and an ...
... technique in redeeming a poem from oblivion . A mastery of technique is rare enough in any art . But in poetry , which demands not only a superb taste in the ever - shifting symbolic system of the connotations of language and 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