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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... Nature and the beginning of his direct address to his sister Dorothy . Nature is The guide , the guardian of my heart , and soul x / X / x / x Of all my moral being . | x / Nor perchance , If I were not thus taught , should I the more ...
... nature of intermedi- ately stressed syllables , 273 ; prevalence of , in English , 282-83 ; principal me- ters of , in English , 54–60 ; principal variations in , 61–74 . See also Accen- tual - syllabic verse ; Iambic rhythm Ictus . See ...
... nature of monosyllabic words , 41 , 43 , 44 Modern English : accentuation in , differ- ences from Middle English , 65 , 77-78 , 266 , 289 ; iambic rhythm , reasons for inclination to , 8-12 ; meaning con- veyed more by word order than ...
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CHAPTER | 27 |
CHAPTER | 52 |
CHAPTER THREE | 94 |
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