Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... thing more strange , than on Nile's slime , the Sun E'er bred , or all which into Noah's Ark came : A thing which would have pos'd Adam to name : Notable in Pope's version is an impulse toward both stress regularity and greater line ...
... thing more strange , than on Nile's slime , the Sun E'er bred , or all which into Noah's Ark came : A thing which would have pos'd Adam to name : Notable in Pope's version is an impulse toward both stress regularity and greater line ...
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... thing only when the thing preceding it is entirely finished . The view is analytic : the materials are being accumulated , like mosaic , piece by piece . But in the Milton passage the enjamb- ment helps transmit a very different effect ...
... thing only when the thing preceding it is entirely finished . The view is analytic : the materials are being accumulated , like mosaic , piece by piece . But in the Milton passage the enjamb- ment helps transmit a very different effect ...
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... things— For skies of couple - colour as a brinded cow ; For rose - moles all in stipple upon trout that swim ; Fresh ... thing that takes place in the white space between the two parts is an ascent to a slightly higher plateau of ...
... things— For skies of couple - colour as a brinded cow ; For rose - moles all in stipple upon trout that swim ; Fresh ... thing that takes place in the white space between the two parts is an ascent to a slightly higher plateau 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