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... spondaic ( or perhaps trochaic ) substitution in the first position ; and line 4 a pyrrhic in the third . Here the substitutions serve both to relieve the metrical monotony of the long- continued , unvaried iambic pentameter and to ...
... spondaic ( or perhaps trochaic ) substitution in the first position ; and line 4 a pyrrhic in the third . Here the substitutions serve both to relieve the metrical monotony of the long- continued , unvaried iambic pentameter and to ...
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Paul Fussell. Against the established iambic background which precedes , the initial trochaic substitution in line 1 con- stitutes an unexpected reversal of rhythmical move- ment which emphasizes the new intensification in the speaker's ...
Paul Fussell. Against the established iambic background which precedes , the initial trochaic substitution in line 1 con- stitutes an unexpected reversal of rhythmical move- ment which emphasizes the new intensification in the speaker's ...
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... trochaic substitution occurs : in the first position , in a medial position , and at the end . In the first position trochaic substitution is ex- tremely common - indeed , this one variation is the most common in all English poetry . It ...
... trochaic substitution occurs : in the first position , in a medial position , and at the end . In the first position trochaic substitution is ex- tremely common - indeed , this one variation is the most common in all English poetry . It ...
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