Sound and Form in Modern Poetry1964 |
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... final syllable , but continuing into the silence of the final dash— which I read as a held rest . The effect is hesitating ; the line slows down and subsides into nothingness . Prosodic movement carries over beyond the final sound in ...
... final syllable , but continuing into the silence of the final dash— which I read as a held rest . The effect is hesitating ; the line slows down and subsides into nothingness . Prosodic movement carries over beyond the final sound in ...
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... final volumes , The Auroras of Autumn and The Rock . The three - line stanza , the open rhythms approaching blank verse , and a new clarity of texture mark the final evolution of Stevens ' prosody . The stanza itself , the triad ...
... final volumes , The Auroras of Autumn and The Rock . The three - line stanza , the open rhythms approaching blank verse , and a new clarity of texture mark the final evolution of Stevens ' prosody . The stanza itself , the triad ...
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... final lines fall in approximate dactyls , sug- gesting , perhaps , Icarus ' spiraling descent : Some thing amazing , a | boy fal ling | out of the | sky , Had some where to get to and | sailed calm ly | on . The metric of " The Unknown ...
... final lines fall in approximate dactyls , sug- gesting , perhaps , Icarus ' spiraling descent : Some thing amazing , a | boy fal ling | out of the | sky , Had some where to get to and | sailed calm ly | on . The metric of " The Unknown ...
Contents
In the Dark Wood | 3 |
Prosody as Rhythmic Cognition | 24 |
Modern Poetry in the Metrical | 42 |
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accents aesthetic alliteration anapests Auden blank verse Bridges cadence caesura Cantos couplet Crane critical dactyls echoes effect emotion Essays Ezra Pound falling rhythm feeling feet Four Quartets four-stress line free verse Gerontion grammar hear hexameter Hopkins iambic pentameter iambs Ibid images Imagist language last line light Lowell Lowell's lyric meaning metrical stress modern poetry monosyllabic move movement never night opening passage pattern pause period style poem poem's poet poet's poetic prose prosodic style Ransom regular rhetorical stresses rhyme rhythmic structure Roethke Roethke's scan scansion sense sestina sing song sound speech spring sprung rhythm stanza Stevens strong-stress meter Sweeney syllable-stress meter syllables symbolic syntactical syntax T. S. Eliot technique tetrameter texture theme thing Thomas tion traditional trimeter trisyllabic trochaic trochee turn vers libre versification visual voice vowel Waste Land Websterian Whitman wind words Yeats York Yvor Winters