Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 17
Page 77
Paul Fussell. Old English versification presents a delusive air of simplicity : actually it is a metrical system of very ... versification , these essentials of structural al- literation and invariable medial caesura pose prob- lems to ...
Paul Fussell. Old English versification presents a delusive air of simplicity : actually it is a metrical system of very ... versification , these essentials of structural al- literation and invariable medial caesura pose prob- lems to ...
Page 86
... versification is the rejection of strict accentual - syllabism in favor of accentualism . This is to say that the use of trisyllabic substitu- tion in duple metrical contexts becomes the technical hallmark of the age , just as the ...
... versification is the rejection of strict accentual - syllabism in favor of accentualism . This is to say that the use of trisyllabic substitu- tion in duple metrical contexts becomes the technical hallmark of the age , just as the ...
Page 89
... versification over almost fifteen centuries , we perceive even through the philological upheavals a recurring pattern . The pattern described by metrical history is similar , perhaps , to the general shape of po- litical history in that ...
... versification over almost fifteen centuries , we perceive even through the philological upheavals a recurring pattern . The pattern described by metrical history is similar , perhaps , to the general shape of po- litical history in that ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 20 |
Metrical Variations | 36 |
Copyright | |
9 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
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