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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Derek Attridge. of any notional stress challenging the unstressed ' with ' . The ... stress carrying the next beat , which slows down the movement over both ... pattern , but this creates further complexities in scansion by reducing the ...
Derek Attridge. of any notional stress challenging the unstressed ' with ' . The ... stress carrying the next beat , which slows down the movement over both ... pattern , but this creates further complexities in scansion by reducing the ...
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... stress both syllables of 'outworn'), once more implying that in reading the lines we perceive at these points two different but simultaneous disyllabic patterns ... pattern of ten syllables and five rhythmic pulses is disturbed; in (13) there ...
... stress both syllables of 'outworn'), once more implying that in reading the lines we perceive at these points two different but simultaneous disyllabic patterns ... pattern of ten syllables and five rhythmic pulses is disturbed; in (13) there ...
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... stress . In dealing with stress , which they regard as a matter of loudness ... pattern , based on only two types of syllable , is in productive tension ... stress contrasts are not perceptible across it ; when this doctrine is applied to ...
... stress . In dealing with stress , which they regard as a matter of loudness ... pattern , based on only two types of syllable , is in productive tension ... stress contrasts are not perceptible across it ; when this doctrine is applied to ...
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... stress that can be converted to Trager - Smith notation as follows ( pp ... pattern which lends itself , pace Wimsatt and Beardsley , to trochaic ... stress phoneme occur on syllables immediately following each other , the occurrence of ...
... stress that can be converted to Trager - Smith notation as follows ( pp ... pattern which lends itself , pace Wimsatt and Beardsley , to trochaic ... stress phoneme occur on syllables immediately following each other , the occurrence of ...
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... pattern, and correspondence rules (also called mapping rules regarded as having no metrical structures or realisation rules) which relate that pattern to the stress ... pattern of stresses in the line of verse itself.) The metrical form most ...
... pattern, and correspondence rules (also called mapping rules regarded as having no metrical structures or realisation rules) which relate that pattern to the stress ... pattern of stresses in the line of verse itself.) The metrical form most ...
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