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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... and the ways in which it is used. The English Language Series seeks to meet this need and to play a part in further stimulating the study and teaching of English by providing up to date and scholarly treatments of topics most relevant ...
... and the ways in which it is used. The English Language Series seeks to meet this need and to play a part in further stimulating the study and teaching of English by providing up to date and scholarly treatments of topics most relevant ...
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... and the Southampton University Advanced Studies Fund, and by the hospitality of Clare College, Cambridge, and the English Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana. I am grateful to the editors of Essays in Criticism for ...
... and the Southampton University Advanced Studies Fund, and by the hospitality of Clare College, Cambridge, and the English Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana. I am grateful to the editors of Essays in Criticism for ...
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... AND THE STRUCTURES OF LANGUAGE 8.1 Indefinite stress 8.2 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 ...
... AND THE STRUCTURES OF LANGUAGE 8.1 Indefinite stress 8.2 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 ...
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Derek Attridge. foot repeated a fixed number of times , and the traditional names of the metres derive from the type of foot and the number of its occurrences in the line . The following list contains the essential vocabulary of the ...
Derek Attridge. foot repeated a fixed number of times , and the traditional names of the metres derive from the type of foot and the number of its occurrences in the line . The following list contains the essential vocabulary of the ...
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... and the upper set the actual stresses and nonstresses of a possible reading: In the basic metre, three lines of iambic tetrameter are followed by an iambic trimeter. However, each of the three tetrameters has one pyrrhic substitution ...
... and the upper set the actual stresses and nonstresses of a possible reading: In the basic metre, three lines of iambic tetrameter are followed by an iambic trimeter. However, each of the three tetrameters has one pyrrhic substitution ...
Contents
THE RHYTHMS OF ENGLISH SPEECH | 8 |
THE FOURBEAT RHYTHM | 25 |
THE FIVEBEAT RHYTHM | |
WHAT IS A METRICAL RULE? | |
THE FUNCTIONS OF POETIC RHYTHM | |
SOME EXAMPLES | |
RULES AND SCANSION | |
Bibliography | |
Sources of examples | |
Index | |
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accentual-syllabic verse alternation anapaestic chapter common metre complex create David Abercrombie demotion deviation dipodic rhythm discussion distinction double offbeat duple metre duple verse duration emphasis English metre English speech English verse example falling rhythm five-beat line five-beat rhythm four-beat line four-beat rhythm four-beat verse function iambic pentameter implied offbeat initial inversion initial offbeat language line-end linguistic metrical form metrical pattern metrical rules metrical set metrical structure metrical style metrical theory movement nonstresses nursery rhymes occur offbeat condition organisation pause perceived perception phonetic phonological phrase poem poetic poetry poets pronunciation prosody reader reading realised rhythmic form rhythmic structure rhythmic unit rising rhythm scansion semantic sense sequence single offbeat sounds speech rhythms stanza stress contour stress pattern stress-final pairing stress-timing stressed and unstressed strong syllable count syntactic break syntax tendency tension triple metre triple rhythm triple verse trochaic trochee underlying rhythm unrealised beat unstressed syllables variation words