Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... terminal trochee in " Among School Children " : Better to smile on all that smile , and show There is a comfortable kind of old / scarecrow . / And to Auden's disposition of the same device : I sit in one of the dives On Fifty - second ...
... terminal trochee in " Among School Children " : Better to smile on all that smile , and show There is a comfortable kind of old / scarecrow . / And to Auden's disposition of the same device : I sit in one of the dives On Fifty - second ...
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... terminal trochee to reinforce its effects of simplicity and sin- cerity . We find a suggestion of the " sincere " terminal trochee in Chatterton's " Mynstrelles Songe " from Aella , where a female speaker , apparently mindful of ...
... terminal trochee to reinforce its effects of simplicity and sin- cerity . We find a suggestion of the " sincere " terminal trochee in Chatterton's " Mynstrelles Songe " from Aella , where a female speaker , apparently mindful of ...
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... terminal trochee will have on the reader , and in this way his metrical taste is informed by his knowledge that he and his reader hold certain metrical conventions in common , certain accustomed ways of responding to certain traditional ...
... terminal trochee will have on the reader , and in this way his metrical taste is informed by his knowledge that he and his reader hold certain metrical conventions in common , certain accustomed ways of responding to certain traditional ...
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