Meter in English: A Critical EngagementDavid Baker University of Arkansas Press, 1996 M01 1 - 368 páginas Renowned poets and experts in metrics respond to Robert Wallace's pivotal essay, Meter in English, which clarifies and simplifies methods of studying poetry. |
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... spondee , dactyl , & c . , . . . even if rhyme and those measurements continue to fur- nish the medium for inferior writers and themes , ( especially for persiflage and the comic , as there seems henceforth , to the perfect taste ...
... spondee , dactyl , & c . , . . . even if rhyme and those measurements continue to fur- nish the medium for inferior writers and themes , ( especially for persiflage and the comic , as there seems henceforth , to the perfect taste ...
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... spondee // pyrrhic amphibrach ~ / U cretic ( or amphimacer ) // bacchic // antibacchic1 / 0 tribrach molossus /// ionic major // 0 ionic minor ( or double - iamb ) ~~ // PART ONE METER IN ENGLISH Robert Wallace In English , xxiii A ...
... spondee // pyrrhic amphibrach ~ / U cretic ( or amphimacer ) // bacchic // antibacchic1 / 0 tribrach molossus /// ionic major // 0 ionic minor ( or double - iamb ) ~~ // PART ONE METER IN ENGLISH Robert Wallace In English , xxiii A ...
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... spondee ( // ) , anapest ( ~~ ) , or dactyl ( / ) . The point is to accommodate in the metrical norm certain other frequent rhyth- mic patterns of English , as well as to avoid metronomic rigidity . / / When to the ses | sions of sweet ...
... spondee ( // ) , anapest ( ~~ ) , or dactyl ( / ) . The point is to accommodate in the metrical norm certain other frequent rhyth- mic patterns of English , as well as to avoid metronomic rigidity . / / When to the ses | sions of sweet ...
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... spondee does in " sweet silent thought . " Both sorts of effect contribute to what we may feel as expres- sive or imitative rhythms , as in ( 1 ) When Ajax strives | some rock's | vast weight | to throw The two spondees suggest ...
... spondee does in " sweet silent thought . " Both sorts of effect contribute to what we may feel as expres- sive or imitative rhythms , as in ( 1 ) When Ajax strives | some rock's | vast weight | to throw The two spondees suggest ...
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... spondee is that it can damp or modu- late the regular alternations in the flow of a passage . Its effects may be of lightness or stasis as well as of weight , as in Keats's third line here : No stir of air was there , Not so much life ...
... spondee is that it can damp or modu- late the regular alternations in the flow of a passage . Its effects may be of lightness or stasis as well as of weight , as in Keats's third line here : No stir of air was there , Not so much life ...
Contenido
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PART TWO | 43 |
A RESPONSE | 45 |
A DEFENSE OF THE NONIAMBIC METERS | 59 |
METERMAKING ARGUMENTS | 75 |
A RESPONSE TO ROBERT WALLACE | 97 |
SOME RESPONSES TO ROBERT WALLACE | 109 |
A NEW FOOTING | 125 |
VERSE VS PROSEPROSODY VS METER | 249 |
METRICS AND PEDAGOGICAL ECONOMY | 265 |
TWO LETTERS | 279 |
A RESPONSE TO ROBERT WALLACE | 283 |
PART THREE | 293 |
COMPLETING THE CIRCLE | 295 |
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CONTRIBUTORS | 357 |
METRICAL PLEASURES OF OUR TIME | 151 |
STRENGTH IN DIVERSITY | 169 |
METER AND THE FORTUNES OF THE NUMERICAL IMAGINATION | 197 |
STAUNCH METER GREAT SONG | 221 |
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Términos y frases comunes
accentual meter accentual verse accentual-syllabic meter accentual-syllabic verse amphibrach anacrusis anapestic Anapests and dactyls basis for meter caesura century conventional critical dactylic dactylic meters discussion double-iamb e-s ending English meter English verse example exist in English extra-syllable ending foot in English four-stress free verse Gioia Greek green thought hear iamb iambic line iambic meter iambic norm iambic pentameter iambic verse Jeffers Jespersen lables language levels of stress linguistic Marianne Moore measure meter in English metrical stress metrists Moore's Nims non-iambic meters number of syllables pattern poem poem's poetic poets Professor Wallace proposition prose prosodists pyrrhic foot quantity reader regular rhyme rhythm rhythmic Robert Wallace Robinson Jeffers Saintsbury scansion seems sense sound speech stress spondee stanza stressed and unstressed strong stresses syllabic meter syllabic verse syllable count syllables tetrameter Timothy Steele tion traditional trochaic trochaic meter trochee unstressed syllables variation versification words writing
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Página v - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.