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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... varied and unpredictable : which is to say that the whole metrical contract between poet and reader becomes a different one . Consider , for example , Frost's " Out , Out- " ; here the caesuras are prevailingly medial and astonishingly ...
... varied and unpredictable : which is to say that the whole metrical contract between poet and reader becomes a different one . Consider , for example , Frost's " Out , Out- " ; here the caesuras are prevailingly medial and astonishingly ...
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... varied by the addition or sub- traction of unaccented syllables : these variations are accom- plished , we can say , by trisyllabic or monosyllabic substitution . In duple measures the substitution of a trisyllabic foot for a dissyl ...
... varied by the addition or sub- traction of unaccented syllables : these variations are accom- plished , we can say , by trisyllabic or monosyllabic substitution . In duple measures the substitution of a trisyllabic foot for a dissyl ...
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... varied iambic pentameter norm against which meaningful variation can occur . Everything proceeds normally and calmly until line 10 , which is the pivot of the poem , the " turn " both thematically , structurally , and metri- cally ...
... varied iambic pentameter norm against which meaningful variation can occur . Everything proceeds normally and calmly until line 10 , which is the pivot of the poem , the " turn " both thematically , structurally , and metri- cally ...
Contenido
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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