Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... tion as an appropriately skilled audience of a very exacting art . I want to thank the Research Council of Rutgers University for generous and understanding support . I must thank the Princeton University Press for permis- sion to ...
... tion as an appropriately skilled audience of a very exacting art . I want to thank the Research Council of Rutgers University for generous and understanding support . I must thank the Princeton University Press for permis- sion to ...
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... tion between the texture and the structure of a poem . The texture , he finds , is " local , " unique to a given poem , while the structure involves the larger elements of form which ally the poem with a tradition or with history or ...
... tion between the texture and the structure of a poem . The texture , he finds , is " local , " unique to a given poem , while the structure involves the larger elements of form which ally the poem with a tradition or with history or ...
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... tion from geometrical exactitude . The poet who under- stands the sonnet form is the one who has developed an instinct for exploiting the principle of imbalance . A characteristic of the Petrarchan sonnet is its con- vention of the ...
... tion from geometrical exactitude . The poet who under- stands the sonnet form is the one who has developed an instinct for exploiting the principle of imbalance . A characteristic of the Petrarchan sonnet is its con- vention of the ...
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