All the Fun's in how You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and VersificationOhio University Press, 1999 - 366 Seiten Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing is a lively and comprehensive study of versification by one of our best contemporary practitioners of traditional poetic forms. Emphasizing both the coherence and the diversity of English metrical practice from Chaucer's time to ours, Timothy Steele explains how poets harmonize the fixed units of meter with the variable flow of idiomatic speech, and examines the ways in which poets have used meter, rhyme, and stanza to communicate and enhance meaning. Steele illuminates as well many practical, theoretical, and historical issues in English prosody, without ever losing sight of the fundamental pleasures, beauties, and insights that fine poems offer us. |
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... metrically accented and also carry notable speech stress . However , the fourth syllable , though bear- ing a metrical accent ( on account of being stronger than the syllable with which it shares its foot ) , does not have much speech ...
... metrical shifts . Indeed , poets can focus meaning by shuttling words between metrically accented and unaccented positions . This technique can be seen in a cou- plet from William Cartwright's tetrametric " To Chloe Who Wished Herself ...
... metrically accented syllables and leaves metrically unaccented syllables unscanned . ( Occasionally , he leaves light metrical beats unscanned as well . ) Were the metrically unaccented sylla- bles scanned , they would presumably ...
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CHAPTER | 27 |
CHAPTER | 52 |
CHAPTER THREE | 94 |
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