Sound and Form in Modern Poetry: A Study of Prosody from Thomas Hardy to Robert Lowell |
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... scan the second foot as trisyllabic , placing a heavy stress on with , distorts the rhythmical beauty of the line ... scans : And trou | ble deaf | heaven with my boot | less cries ... We might expect to find metrical ineptness in ...
... scan the second foot as trisyllabic , placing a heavy stress on with , distorts the rhythmical beauty of the line ... scans : And trou | ble deaf | heaven with my boot | less cries ... We might expect to find metrical ineptness in ...
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... scan a single line from Virgil , con sti tit atque oculis Phry gi | a ag mi na | cir cum | spex it means determining which syllables are long or short by nature , which are long and short by position . Latin dictionaries mark the ...
... scan a single line from Virgil , con sti tit atque oculis Phry gi | a ag mi na | cir cum | spex it means determining which syllables are long or short by nature , which are long and short by position . Latin dictionaries mark the ...
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... scan , but where ' one ' seems to be thrust in out of pure mischief - or many others . He never published any ; and ... scanned by feet , but a form of Prose Rhythm not amenable to scansion and therefore not to be explained as verse ...
... scan , but where ' one ' seems to be thrust in out of pure mischief - or many others . He never published any ; and ... scanned by feet , but a form of Prose Rhythm not amenable to scansion and therefore not to be explained as verse ...
Contents
Quantitative and Syllabic Meters | 2 |
Prosodic Analysis | 37 |
NineteenthCentury Precursors | 80 |
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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