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Paul Fussell. amphibrach antispast bacchic choriamb cretic epitrite ( called first , second , third , or fourth epitrite ac- cording to the position of the short syllable ) ionic a majore ionic a minore paeon ( called first , second , third ...
Paul Fussell. amphibrach antispast bacchic choriamb cretic epitrite ( called first , second , third , or fourth epitrite ac- cording to the position of the short syllable ) ionic a majore ionic a minore paeon ( called first , second , third ...
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... third position ; line 2 a pyrrhic in the third ; line 3 a spondaic ( or perhaps trochaic ) substitution in the first position ; and line 4 a pyrrhic in the third . Here the substitutions serve both to relieve the metrical monotony of ...
... third position ; line 2 a pyrrhic in the third ; line 3 a spondaic ( or perhaps trochaic ) substitution in the first position ; and line 4 a pyrrhic in the third . Here the substitutions serve both to relieve the metrical monotony of ...
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... third line : " Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn , We should have sat us down to wet Right many a ... third stanza , as the speaker begins to rationalize his intellectual and moral predicament , the weighty third line is used ...
... third line : " Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn , We should have sat us down to wet Right many a ... third stanza , as the speaker begins to rationalize his intellectual and moral predicament , the weighty third line is used ...
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