Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... tradition of more or less regular base rhythm : we can have no variations in entirely " free " or " cadenced " verse ... tradition , this is where we must go to find it . If we are more or less traditional graphic scansion- ists , we ...
... tradition of more or less regular base rhythm : we can have no variations in entirely " free " or " cadenced " verse ... tradition , this is where we must go to find it . If we are more or less traditional graphic scansion- ists , we ...
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Paul Fussell. demic and technical tradition of iambic endings in iambic lines . But it is important to perceive that ... traditional symbolic stimuli . Now that we have considered the most common sorts of metrical variations , we should ...
Paul Fussell. demic and technical tradition of iambic endings in iambic lines . But it is important to perceive that ... traditional symbolic stimuli . Now that we have considered the most common sorts of metrical variations , we should ...
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... tradition , for the tradition in stichic poetry is that a high degree of line integrity prevail . By his particular strategy of enjamb- ment , consequently , the poet takes a stance toward a tradition as well as expressing an attitude ...
... tradition , for the tradition in stichic poetry is that a high degree of line integrity prevail . By his particular strategy of enjamb- ment , consequently , the poet takes a stance toward a tradition as well as expressing an attitude ...
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