Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... varied and unpredictable : which is to say that the whole metrical contract becomes a dif- ferent one . Consider , for example , Frost's " Out , Out— " ; here the caesuras are prevailingly medial and astonishingly unvaried : No one ...
... varied and unpredictable : which is to say that the whole metrical contract becomes a dif- ferent one . Consider , for example , Frost's " Out , Out— " ; here the caesuras are prevailingly medial and astonishingly unvaried : No one ...
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... varied blank verse , serves to transmit a reinforcement of the mo- notony to which the lonely peasant , in his old age , is irrevocably destined . It is a similar kind of expressive rather than auto- matic regularity that Milton ...
... varied blank verse , serves to transmit a reinforcement of the mo- notony to which the lonely peasant , in his old age , is irrevocably destined . It is a similar kind of expressive rather than auto- matic regularity that Milton ...
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... varied one . To compare George Crabbe frigid with George Crabbe afire is to get a fairly accurate feel for what is fatally defective about a metrical regularity that arises less from the real pressure and meaning of the poetic moment ...
... varied one . To compare George Crabbe frigid with George Crabbe afire is to get a fairly accurate feel for what is fatally defective about a metrical regularity that arises less from the real pressure and meaning of the poetic moment ...
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