All the Fun's in how You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and VersificationOhio University Press, 1999 - 366 Seiten Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing is a lively and comprehensive study of versification by one of our best contemporary practitioners of traditional poetic forms. Emphasizing both the coherence and the diversity of English metrical practice from Chaucer's time to ours, Timothy Steele explains how poets harmonize the fixed units of meter with the variable flow of idiomatic speech, and examines the ways in which poets have used meter, rhyme, and stanza to communicate and enhance meaning. Steele illuminates as well many practical, theoretical, and historical issues in English prosody, without ever losing sight of the fundamental pleasures, beauties, and insights that fine poems offer us. |
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... looks from a phonetic standpoint . Orthography can also bedevil foot division . X , as the double consonant ks , can ... look scarcely less strange to spell the first two syllables of “ exercise " phonetically and then make the foot ...
... look out far . They cannot look in deep . But when was that ever a bar To any watch they keep ? In this poem , as in Hardy's , a fair number of feet ( eleven feet out of forty - eight ) are anapests instead of iambs . x / x x / x / The ...
... look | out far . X / X X They can not look | in deep . X X X / x x / But when was that ever a bar x / X X / To any watch | they keep ? Yet the beat count is clear , and — again , as with Hardy's " The Wound " -the rhymes help us hear ...
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CHAPTER | 52 |
CHAPTER THREE | 94 |
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