Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... trisyllabic or monosyllabic substitution . In duple meas- ures the substitution of a trisyllabic foot for a dissyl- labic one is a bolder practice than any we have seen so far , for it increases the syllabic length of the line and thus ...
... trisyllabic or monosyllabic substitution . In duple meas- ures the substitution of a trisyllabic foot for a dissyl- labic one is a bolder practice than any we have seen so far , for it increases the syllabic length of the line and thus ...
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... trisyllabic for dissyllabic feet is not conceived to be in good form , and our scansion of such poems should reflect ... trisyllabic feet , for by the nineteenth century trisyllabic substitution had be- come a metrical convention . But ...
... trisyllabic for dissyllabic feet is not conceived to be in good form , and our scansion of such poems should reflect ... trisyllabic feet , for by the nineteenth century trisyllabic substitution had be- come a metrical convention . But ...
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... trisyllabic substitu- tion in duple metrical contexts becomes the technical hallmark of the age , just as the careful avoidance of trisyllabic substitution had been the rhythmical sign of eighteenth - century poetry . In his ...
... trisyllabic substitu- tion in duple metrical contexts becomes the technical hallmark of the age , just as the careful avoidance of trisyllabic substitution had been the rhythmical sign of eighteenth - century poetry . In his ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 20 |
Metrical Variations | 36 |
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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