Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... unstressed ; he uses the symbol to indicate syllables which , in context , are stressed . A division between poetic feet is indicated by / . A caesura , or metrical pause , is indicated by || . In musical scansion , on the other hand ...
... unstressed ; he uses the symbol to indicate syllables which , in context , are stressed . A division between poetic feet is indicated by / . A caesura , or metrical pause , is indicated by || . In musical scansion , on the other hand ...
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... unstressed syllables can reinforce effects of slowness , weight , or difficulty ; 2. A succession of unstressed syllables without the expected intervening stressed syllables can reinforce effects of rapidity , lightness , or ease ; 3 ...
... unstressed syllables can reinforce effects of slowness , weight , or difficulty ; 2. A succession of unstressed syllables without the expected intervening stressed syllables can reinforce effects of rapidity , lightness , or ease ; 3 ...
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... unstressed which constitutes the abstract framework of blank verse , the presentation of a sequence of unstressed syllables 58 PART ONE POETIC METER.
... unstressed which constitutes the abstract framework of blank verse , the presentation of a sequence of unstressed syllables 58 PART ONE POETIC METER.
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