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... triplets , or , interchangably , tercets . It is probably better to use tercet only to dis- tinguish three lines organized other than by a thrice- repeated rhyme . Thus this is a triplet : Whenas in silks my Julia goes , Then , then ...
... triplets , or , interchangably , tercets . It is probably better to use tercet only to dis- tinguish three lines organized other than by a thrice- repeated rhyme . Thus this is a triplet : Whenas in silks my Julia goes , Then , then ...
Page 140
... triplets are sometimes used in heroic couplet poems to mark moments of climax or special pressure , and often the last line of the triplet swells to an alexandrine , as if the materials were stretching their container and almost ...
... triplets are sometimes used in heroic couplet poems to mark moments of climax or special pressure , and often the last line of the triplet swells to an alexandrine , as if the materials were stretching their container and almost ...
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... triplet , 139-41 Van Dyke , Henry , 37-38 , 39 Venus and Adonis stanza , 152 , 157 , 161 , 163 Waller , Edmund , 83 ; On a Girdle , 143 Warton , Joseph , To Fancy , 99 , 100 Watts , Isaac , Day of Judgment , 146 ; When I Survey , 142 ...
... triplet , 139-41 Van Dyke , Henry , 37-38 , 39 Venus and Adonis stanza , 152 , 157 , 161 , 163 Waller , Edmund , 83 ; On a Girdle , 143 Warton , Joseph , To Fancy , 99 , 100 Watts , Isaac , Day of Judgment , 146 ; When I Survey , 142 ...
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