Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... words in poetic lines , and until we master the art of understanding and marking the rhetorical emphasis of the words as if they were prose we are unprepared to venture upon the next step in scansion , a step fraught with the danger of ...
... words in poetic lines , and until we master the art of understanding and marking the rhetorical emphasis of the words as if they were prose we are unprepared to venture upon the next step in scansion , a step fraught with the danger of ...
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... words are continuously either reinforcing or departing from , has the power now and then to force a metrical rather than a natural pro- nunciation of a word or phrase . Consider what happens in these two lines of the old ballad of " Sir ...
... words are continuously either reinforcing or departing from , has the power now and then to force a metrical rather than a natural pro- nunciation of a word or phrase . Consider what happens in these two lines of the old ballad of " Sir ...
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... words all alone , words which stand as the very emblem of Jane's new world of experience , such force that they almost knock us down . The convention of rhyme appears to function here , as it very frequently does , not as a curb upon ...
... words all alone , words which stand as the very emblem of Jane's new world of experience , such force that they almost knock us down . The convention of rhyme appears to function here , as it very frequently does , not as a curb upon ...
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