Metre, Rhythm and Verse FormPoetry criticism is a subject central to the study of literature. However, it is laden with technical terms that, to the beginning student, can be both intimidating and confusing. Philip Hobsbaum provides a welcome remedy, illuminating terms ranging from the iambus to the bob-wheel stanza, and forms from the Spenserian sonnet to modern 'rap', with clarity and comprehensiveness. It is an essential guide through the terminology which will be invaluable reading for undergraduates new to the subject. |
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معاينة المستخدمين - RandyMetcalfe - LibraryThingThere is something inspiring, and just a bit intimidating, when a master of prosody and the history of English poetry sets about delineating the varieties of poetic metre, rhythm, and verse form ... قراءة التقييم بأكمله
المحتوى
Blank verse | 10 |
The heroic couplet | 22 |
Rhyme and pararhyme | 36 |
Sprung verse | 53 |
Quantity and syllables | 71 |
Free verse | 89 |
Verse forms i | 121 |
Verse forms ii | 149 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
amphibrachic ballad beauty begins blank verse cadenced verse called counterpoint dactylic Daryush death dimeter Donne drama effect elegy Eliot English enjambment example Faber & Faber Faber Ltd feet five-stress lines foot four-stress lines free blank verse free verse free verse proper full rhyme heavily stressed syllables heavy stresses heroic couplet hexameter Hopkins hymn stanza iamb iambic imitated John Keats kind language light syllables lightly stressed syllables lines rhyming lyric meditation medium stress medium-light metre metrical foot metrical form Milton Moore narrative norm ottava rima pararhyme pause Petrarchan poem poet poetry prose quantity rhyme scheme rhyming alternately rhythmic satirical Seamus Heaney sense sestet sestina Shakespeare song song-lyric sonnet sorrow sound sprung rhythm sprung verse stress pattern tercet terza rima tetrameters third lines thou three-line thrust trimeter twentieth century usually variegation variety verse forms villanelle voice vowels W. H. Auden Whitman William words Wordsworth wrote