Description
Metre, Rhyme and Free Verse
The Critical Idiom Reissued Series
Author: Fraser G. S.
Language: EnglishKeywords
Eliot’s Verse Plays; Middle English Alliterative Poetry; iambic; Bishop Berkeley; pentameter; Horatian Metre; line; Verse Line; regular; Verse; pure; Eliot’s Ash Wednesday; stress; Iambic Foot; foot; Regular Iambic; trochaic; Iambic Pentameter; tetrameter; Trochaic Substitution; feminine; Pure Stress; classical metres; Iambic Line; English prosody; Pr Ide; verse patterns; Rime Riche; nursery rhymes; Natural Speech; English speech patterns; Terza Rima; Anapaestic Line; Marianne Moore; Iambic Tetrameter; Free Verse
Publication date: 07-2017
· 12.9x19.8 cm · Hardback
Publication date: 07-2018
· 12.9x19.8 cm · Paperback
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First published in 1970, this work outlines the principles of English prosody in a way that will enable the reader to recognise and scan any piece of English verse. It illustrates the close relationship between English speech patterns and verse patterns, and the primary importance of the phenomenon of stress. It also discusses the suitability of various kinds of metrical pattern for various kinds of poetic effect.
This book will be of interest to those studying poetry and English literature.
Founder Editor’s Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Some Definitions and Distinctions 2. Pure Stress Metres 3. Stress – Syllable Metres 4. Quantitative Metres and Pure Syllabic Metres 5. Rhyme 6. Free Verse; Select Bibliography; Index
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