Sound and Form in Modern Poetry: A Study of Prosody from Thomas Hardy to Robert Lowell |
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... scansion is its apparent crudity . The linguists recommend a subtler method of scansion , taking into account the four levels of English stress , juncture , and pitch . A linguist's scansion of Yeats ' " Speech , after long silence ...
... scansion is its apparent crudity . The linguists recommend a subtler method of scansion , taking into account the four levels of English stress , juncture , and pitch . A linguist's scansion of Yeats ' " Speech , after long silence ...
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... scansion , of course , is a convenient fiction , abstracting certain phonetic elements and ignoring others . But the scansion must describe what is without doubt really there . It must indeed be descriptive and not interpre- tive . A ...
... scansion , of course , is a convenient fiction , abstracting certain phonetic elements and ignoring others . But the scansion must describe what is without doubt really there . It must indeed be descriptive and not interpre- tive . A ...
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... scansion but ancillary to it . The " discovery " of prosodic isochronism is a matter of conviction , not measure- ment . Scansion , although not devoid of subjective elements , is more objective . Scansion shows the give and take ...
... scansion but ancillary to it . The " discovery " of prosodic isochronism is a matter of conviction , not measure- ment . Scansion , although not devoid of subjective elements , is more objective . Scansion shows the give and take ...
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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