Metrical Principles of English Poetry: A Course of Lectures by Professor Ruth WallersteinUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1961 - 448 pages |
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... measure that come in each line . We study the kinds of measures , but keep in mind that what gives them existence is their place in the line . The measures can be compared to a phrase in modern music . A flow of words expressing a ...
... measure that come in each line . We study the kinds of measures , but keep in mind that what gives them existence is their place in the line . The measures can be compared to a phrase in modern music . A flow of words expressing a ...
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... measure . It is ́ / x that makes us ready to go on with the measure . There is verse with lines that begin with / , but it is extremely rare . I think the term inversion is helpful in describing x / in the first foot of an iambic line ...
... measure . It is ́ / x that makes us ready to go on with the measure . There is verse with lines that begin with / , but it is extremely rare . I think the term inversion is helpful in describing x / in the first foot of an iambic line ...
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... measure is so light . Notice the contrast in prevent and performed . In the second line there is hardly a caesura . measure . Line 3 has many monosyllables , and Marlowe makes them bearable by the light fourth The light fourth measure ...
... measure is so light . Notice the contrast in prevent and performed . In the second line there is hardly a caesura . measure . Line 3 has many monosyllables , and Marlowe makes them bearable by the light fourth The light fourth measure ...
Common terms and phrases
accent alliteration anapest balance beauty beginning blank verse caesura canzone combination consonants contrast couplet create developed dipodic dissyllables distinctive Donne Donne's Dryden effect elements Eliot emphasis end-stopped English verse epic falling rhythm feeling formal free verse gives a sense Greek half-line Hopkins individual lines inversion last line length light logic lyric madrigal ment meter metrical pattern metrists Milton Miss Wallerstein monosyllables move movement ottava ottava rima paragraph passage pause pentameter phrase Pindaric play poem poetry poets polysyllables Pope prose Prosody repeated repetition rhetoric rhyme words run-on line scansion sestina Shakespeare short lines single line song sonnet Sonnet 16 speech Spenser spondees sprung rhythm stress strong structure suggests suppressed beat syllable T. S. Eliot Tamburlaine Tennyson tension tetrameter thee theory thing thou thought tion tradition tremendous trimeter triple falling triple rising rhythm unstressed syllables variation vowels weight whole