Metrical Principles of English Poetry: A Course of Lectures by Professor Ruth WallersteinUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1961 - 448 pages |
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... thought . It seems to me that by the one double inversion and by the use of an inversion after the caesura in ... thought to the verse and diffuses it to get the music or gives the In the music to concentrate on the thought makes all 41.
... thought . It seems to me that by the one double inversion and by the use of an inversion after the caesura in ... thought to the verse and diffuses it to get the music or gives the In the music to concentrate on the thought makes all 41.
Page 50
... thought . There is a sense of the drive of the thought through it . There are other obvious differences . In the As You Like It passage , the parenthesis gives a sense of forward movement , but each line stands out by obvious rhetoric ...
... thought . There is a sense of the drive of the thought through it . There are other obvious differences . In the As You Like It passage , the parenthesis gives a sense of forward movement , but each line stands out by obvious rhetoric ...
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... thought at this time that the energy of speech was too much subordinated to patterns , and this brought about a reaction . Pound , for example , thought Provencal poetry closer to immediate thought than later poetry . In Make It New ...
... thought at this time that the energy of speech was too much subordinated to patterns , and this brought about a reaction . Pound , for example , thought Provencal poetry closer to immediate thought than later poetry . In Make It New ...
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