Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... thou appear untouched by solemn thought , Thy nature is not therefore less divine : Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year ; And worshipp'st at the temple's inner shrine , God being with thee when we know it not . And sometimes the ...
... thou appear untouched by solemn thought , Thy nature is not therefore less divine : Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year ; And worshipp'st at the temple's inner shrine , God being with thee when we know it not . And sometimes the ...
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... thou and I shall waste , And ended is that we begun . Now is this song both sung and past , My lute , be still , for I have done . The most common six - line stanzas are those which consist either of three couplets or of a quatrain and ...
... thou and I shall waste , And ended is that we begun . Now is this song both sung and past , My lute , be still , for I have done . The most common six - line stanzas are those which consist either of three couplets or of a quatrain and ...
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... Thou'st met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem : To spare thee now is past my pow'r , Thou bonnie gem . But more often the bobs are used as fillips of impudent irony . In " Holy Willie's Prayer ...
... Thou'st met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem : To spare thee now is past my pow'r , Thou bonnie gem . But more often the bobs are used as fillips of impudent irony . In " Holy Willie's Prayer ...
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