Sound and Form in Modern Poetry: A Study of Prosody from Thomas Hardy to Robert Lowell

accents aesthetic alliteration anapests Auden blank verse Bridges cadence caesura Cantos couplet Crane critical dactyls echoes effect emotion Essays experience 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 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