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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... rhythm 5.5 Five-beat and four-beat rhythms. Part. Three: Metre. 6 WHAT IS A METRICAL RULE? 6.1 Rules of metre and rules of language 6.2 Metrical set 7 THE RULES OF ENGLISH METRE 7.1 Underlying rhythms and metrical patterns 7.2 Base rules ...
... rhythm 5.5 Five-beat and four-beat rhythms. Part. Three: Metre. 6 WHAT IS A METRICAL RULE? 6.1 Rules of metre and rules of language 6.2 Metrical set 7 THE RULES OF ENGLISH METRE 7.1 Underlying rhythms and metrical patterns 7.2 Base rules ...
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... rhythm: a simple underlying metre on which is superimposed a more complex pattern representing with greater fidelity the actual pronunciation of the words. Most modern defenders of the classical approach would argue that this picture of ...
... rhythm: a simple underlying metre on which is superimposed a more complex pattern representing with greater fidelity the actual pronunciation of the words. Most modern defenders of the classical approach would argue that this picture of ...
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... rhythm to the shifting emotional colours; it must capture, for instance, the heavy regularity of the second and fourth lines ... underlying, abstract nonstress in conflict with the actual stress of 'heav'n', nor of any notional stress ...
... rhythm to the shifting emotional colours; it must capture, for instance, the heavy regularity of the second and fourth lines ... underlying, abstract nonstress in conflict with the actual stress of 'heav'n', nor of any notional stress ...
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... underlying assumption of the whole approach is that the reader or hearer of verse perceives the durations of individual syllables, and that his sense of a rhythmic structure derives from the simple patterns in time that they create. To ...
... underlying assumption of the whole approach is that the reader or hearer of verse perceives the durations of individual syllables, and that his sense of a rhythmic structure derives from the simple patterns in time that they create. To ...
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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