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... closed and enjambed lines Scansion is truly applicable only to metrical poetry ; I will discuss free verse later . The assumption underlying metrical poetry is that the line lengths are determined by a prescribed number of metrical feet ...
... closed and enjambed lines Scansion is truly applicable only to metrical poetry ; I will discuss free verse later . The assumption underlying metrical poetry is that the line lengths are determined by a prescribed number of metrical feet ...
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... closed , heavy with spondees ( vast Image , gaze blank , slow thighs ) . But we find enjambment again as the birds screech up in protest : " while all about it / Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds . " That closed line closes the ...
... closed , heavy with spondees ( vast Image , gaze blank , slow thighs ) . But we find enjambment again as the birds screech up in protest : " while all about it / Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds . " That closed line closes the ...
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... closed " lines , but lines 1 and 4 are more nearly closed than line 3 , and line 1 is more nearly closed than line 4. The degree of closure depends upon how much the sentence structure requires the word or words at the beginning of the ...
... closed " lines , but lines 1 and 4 are more nearly closed than line 3 , and line 1 is more nearly closed than line 4. The degree of closure depends upon how much the sentence structure requires the word or words at the beginning of the ...
Contents
poetry and use | 11 |
poetry and truth | 20 |
Questions for Study | 34 |
Copyright | |
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accents anapests beat beauty bird born break breath caesura called Chromis couplet Criticism dark dead death DOLLABELLA DOTO dramatic dream Dylan Thomas DYNAMENE earth English enjambment eyes feel feet free verse Frost Ginsberg hand hear heart heaven iamb iambic imagery images imagination Karl Shapiro language light live look lovers Lowell lyric madam meaning meter metrical metrical feet Milton mind moon never night passage pattern pentameter phrase play poem poet poetic poetry prose Prufrock quatrain reader REFERENCES reprinted rhyme rhythm Richard Wilbur Robert Robert Lowell scansion seems sense Shakespeare Silas sing song sonnet soul sound spondee stanza stress strophe suggests sweet syllables symbolic T. S. Eliot TEGEUS tell term thee things thou thought tion trochee truth turn verse paragraph Virilius W. D. Snodgrass wind words writing