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 set 7 THE RULES OF ENGLISH METRE 7.1 Underlying rhythms and metrical patterns 7.2 Base rules and double offbeats 7.3 Promotion 7.4 Demotion 7.5 Implied offbeats 7.6 Pairing conditions and syllabic rhythm 7.7 Iambic verse 7.8 ...
... Metrical set 7 THE RULES OF ENGLISH METRE 7.1 Underlying rhythms and metrical patterns 7.2 Base rules and double offbeats 7.3 Promotion 7.4 Demotion 7.5 Implied offbeats 7.6 Pairing conditions and syllabic rhythm 7.7 Iambic verse 7.8 ...
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... set the verse of Greece and Rome on the highest of pedestals, it was ... metrical organisation and subtlety, since the only tools of analysis ... metrical patterning so obviously in what they heard: they read Latin verse with a mode of ...
... set the verse of Greece and Rome on the highest of pedestals, it was ... metrical organisation and subtlety, since the only tools of analysis ... metrical patterning so obviously in what they heard: they read Latin verse with a mode of ...
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... metrical studies was delayed, and has outlived its pre-eminence within its ... verse. This tradition, largely Russian in origin, has produced some valuable ... set of distinctions that constitute that language's phonological system, and ...
... metrical studies was delayed, and has outlived its pre-eminence within its ... verse. This tradition, largely Russian in origin, has produced some valuable ... set of distinctions that constitute that language's phonological system, and ...
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... set of phonemes. In the 1940s and 1950s, the dominant school of American ... structure of an unfamiliar language from a collection of utterances. Other labels ... metrical studies.2 The concept of the phoneme, with its emphasis on the 30 ...
... set of phonemes. In the 1940s and 1950s, the dominant school of American ... structure of an unfamiliar language from a collection of utterances. Other labels ... metrical studies.2 The concept of the phoneme, with its emphasis on the 30 ...
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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