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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... Sense and the stress pattern 8.3 Metrical subordination 8.4 Double offbeats and elision 8.5 Promotion and demotion 8.6 Pairing and syntax 8.7 Pairing and word-boundaries 8.8 Compounds. Part. Four: Practice. 9 THE FUNCTIONS OF POETIC RHYTHM ...
... Sense and the stress pattern 8.3 Metrical subordination 8.4 Double offbeats and elision 8.5 Promotion and demotion 8.6 Pairing and syntax 8.7 Pairing and word-boundaries 8.8 Compounds. Part. Four: Practice. 9 THE FUNCTIONS OF POETIC RHYTHM ...
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... sense of its fine artistic precision came from an intellectual perception of the ordered ranks of abstractly categorised syllables.1 One natural result of this dissatisfaction was the protracted endeavour by English poets to create in ...
... sense of its fine artistic precision came from an intellectual perception of the ordered ranks of abstractly categorised syllables.1 One natural result of this dissatisfaction was the protracted endeavour by English poets to create in ...
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... sense of rhythmic dislocation; in the rewritten version both words require a strong emphasis to maintain the metrical structure of five beats, and a greater sense of disturbance is experienced as a result. Yet in the classical approach ...
... sense of rhythmic dislocation; in the rewritten version both words require a strong emphasis to maintain the metrical structure of five beats, and a greater sense of disturbance is experienced as a result. Yet in the classical approach ...
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... sense that we can apply the term 'tension' to poetic rhythm, without implying foot-scansion and substitution, or the perception of two discrete patterns at different levels and a relationship between them, and we shall find it an ...
... sense that we can apply the term 'tension' to poetic rhythm, without implying foot-scansion and substitution, or the perception of two discrete patterns at different levels and a relationship between them, and we shall find it an ...
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... sense of a rhythmic structure derives from the simple patterns in time that they create. To carry the discussion of the temporal tradition further, we need to shift our attention to another branch of it, one which is often closely ...
... sense of a rhythmic structure derives from the simple patterns in time that they create. To carry the discussion of the temporal tradition further, we need to shift our attention to another branch of it, one which is often closely ...
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