Poetic Meter and Poetic FormRandom House, 1979 - 188 páginas "This book might be required reading for all students of poetry because it makes wonderfully clear the relationship of metrics to the formal achievement of meaning ... Fussell's command of his subject and his never-failing common sense will guarantee ... enrichment for anyone who takes the time to read this book."--Frank Lentricchia, Jr., PoetryDonated by Prabu Vasan. |
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... sonnet consists of three parts ( two quatrains and the sestet ) which underlie an unbalanced bipartite shape ( octave and sestet ) . The sonnet's structural identity lies in just this imbalance : the first eight lines constitute a ...
... sonnet consists of three parts ( two quatrains and the sestet ) which underlie an unbalanced bipartite shape ( octave and sestet ) . The sonnet's structural identity lies in just this imbalance : the first eight lines constitute a ...
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... sonnet the prob- lem is often solved by reasoned perception or by a relatively ex- pansive and formal meditative process , for the sestet allows enough room for the undertaking of prudent , highly reasonable kinds of resolutions . But ...
... sonnet the prob- lem is often solved by reasoned perception or by a relatively ex- pansive and formal meditative process , for the sestet allows enough room for the undertaking of prudent , highly reasonable kinds of resolutions . But ...
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... sonnet in tetrameter instead of pentameter lines ( " Sonnet CXLV " ) stimulated much imitation : now the rhymes seem to occur at excessively short intervals , and we get the illusion of being carried along too rapidly for the assertions ...
... sonnet in tetrameter instead of pentameter lines ( " Sonnet CXLV " ) stimulated much imitation : now the rhymes seem to occur at excessively short intervals , and we get the illusion of being carried along too rapidly for the assertions ...
Contenido
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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