Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... turn from such an exhibit to the work of the more genuine Whitman , we find that beneath the witty guise of free verse reside the same sort of ex- pressive cadences that vivify verse composed expres- sively in more overtly traditional ...
... turn from such an exhibit to the work of the more genuine Whitman , we find that beneath the witty guise of free verse reside the same sort of ex- pressive cadences that vivify verse composed expres- sively in more overtly traditional ...
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... turn , " which normally occurs at the start of line 9 , the beginning of the sestet . It is per- haps more accurate to say that the turn occurs some- where in the white space that separates line 8 from line 9 , and that line 9 simply ...
... turn , " which normally occurs at the start of line 9 , the beginning of the sestet . It is per- haps more accurate to say that the turn occurs some- where in the white space that separates line 8 from line 9 , and that line 9 simply ...
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... turn something analogous to the gen- eral kinds of " release " with which the reader's muscles and nervous system are familiar . George Santayana's " As in the Midst of Battle " is a good representative Petrarchan sonnet in which the turn ...
... turn something analogous to the gen- eral kinds of " release " with which the reader's muscles and nervous system are familiar . George Santayana's " As in the Midst of Battle " is a good representative Petrarchan sonnet in which the turn ...
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