The Rhythms of English PoetryExamines the way in which poetry in English makes use of rhythm. The author argues that there are three major influences which determine the verse-forms used in any language: the natural rhythm of the spoken language itself; the properties of rhythmic form; and the metrical conventions which have grown up within the literary tradition. He investigates these in order to explain the forms of English verse, and to show how rhythm and metre work as an essential part of the reader's experience of poetry. |
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... metrical knowledge is based. The book is designed to be read as a whole, but the interdependence of parts and ... form, and Part Three with the metrical conventions of the verse tradition. A proper understanding of the first two ...
... metrical knowledge is based. The book is designed to be read as a whole, but the interdependence of parts and ... form, and Part Three with the metrical conventions of the verse tradition. A proper understanding of the first two ...
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Derek Attridge. Chapter. 1. Traditional. approaches. One kind of insight into the history of metrical ... form the subject of this chapter. To categorise in this way is, of course ... metrical assumptions which underlie most critical ...
Derek Attridge. Chapter. 1. Traditional. approaches. One kind of insight into the history of metrical ... form the subject of this chapter. To categorise in this way is, of course ... metrical assumptions which underlie most critical ...
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... form involves the doubling of the unstressed syllable to replace an iamb by ... metrical discussion, can be introduced here: a line which ends with a ... metrical phenomenon which the classical approach does not easily accommodate: lines ...
... form involves the doubling of the unstressed syllable to replace an iamb by ... metrical discussion, can be introduced here: a line which ends with a ... metrical phenomenon which the classical approach does not easily accommodate: lines ...
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... metrical form. Consider the following lines, in a metre which occurs widely throughout the English tradition (the symbols here indicate the basic metrical scheme, not the actual stress pattern): / X / X / X / (9) Here the anthem doth ...
... metrical form. Consider the following lines, in a metre which occurs widely throughout the English tradition (the symbols here indicate the basic metrical scheme, not the actual stress pattern): / X / X / X / (9) Here the anthem doth ...
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... form, closer to the strong-stress metre of medieval alliterative verse in its indifference to the number of syllables in the line; but to argue this is to drive a wedge between metrical types which shade into one another, and, by ...
... form, closer to the strong-stress metre of medieval alliterative verse in its indifference to the number of syllables in the line; but to argue this is to drive a wedge between metrical types which shade into one another, and, by ...
Contents
Rhythm | 57 |
Metre | 145 |
Practice | 283 |
RULES AND SCANSION | 357 |
Bibliography | 363 |
Sources of examples | 376 |
Index | 388 |
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accentual-syllabic verse alternation anapaestic B B B B Ceolred chapter classical approach common metre complex create David Abercrombie deviation discussion distinction double offbeat duple metre duple verse emphasis English metre English verse example falling rhythm five-beat line following line four-beat line four-beat rhythm four-beat verse function iambic pentameter implied offbeat initial inversion initial offbeat language linguistic literary metrical form metrical pattern metrical rules metrical set metrical structure metrical style metrical subordination metrical theory metrist movement nonstresses occur offbeat condition optional pause perceived perception phonetic phonological phrase poem poetic poetry poets promotion pronunciation prosody reader reading rhyme rhythmic form rhythmic structure rhythmic unit scansion semantic sense sequence single offbeat speech rhythms stanza stress contour stress pattern stress-final pairing stress-initial pairing stress-timing stressed and unstressed strong syllable count syntactic break syntax tension tradition triple metre triple rhythm triple verse trochaic trochee underlying rhythm unrealised beat unstressed syllables words