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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... words 'rhythm' and 'metre' occur on virtually every page, and as the titles of two parts, I have no wish to differentiate between them by means of simple definitions. The connotations which they carry are basically those of common usage ...
... words 'rhythm' and 'metre' occur on virtually every page, and as the titles of two parts, I have no wish to differentiate between them by means of simple definitions. The connotations which they carry are basically those of common usage ...
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... words. Most modern defenders of the classical approach would argue that this picture of two levels, partly coinciding, partly conflicting, reflects what in fact happens as we read metrical verse, and reveals one source of its special ...
... words. Most modern defenders of the classical approach would argue that this picture of two levels, partly coinciding, partly conflicting, reflects what in fact happens as we read metrical verse, and reveals one source of its special ...
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Derek Attridge. carrying the next beat, which slows down the movement over both words and creates a point of rhythmic ... word 'deaf and ends with a return to the regular pace on 'bootless'; and the five beats of the line, instead of ...
Derek Attridge. carrying the next beat, which slows down the movement over both words and creates a point of rhythmic ... word 'deaf and ends with a return to the regular pace on 'bootless'; and the five beats of the line, instead of ...
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... words in question, though they effect a slowing down at the end of the line, create little sense of rhythmic dislocation; in the rewritten version both words require a strong emphasis to maintain the metrical structure of five beats ...
... words in question, though they effect a slowing down at the end of the line, create little sense of rhythmic dislocation; in the rewritten version both words require a strong emphasis to maintain the metrical structure of five beats ...
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... words and tune observing quantity' (1595, sig. L2r),6 and it may have been this relationship which led Thomas Campion, England's most accomplished writer of poetry and music united in song, to elaborate a quantitative theory of English ...
... words and tune observing quantity' (1595, sig. L2r),6 and it may have been this relationship which led Thomas Campion, England's most accomplished writer of poetry and music united in song, to elaborate a quantitative theory of English ...
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