The Anatomy of PoetryIt is impossible to appreciate poetry fully without some knowledge of the various aspects of poetic technique. First published in 1953, with a second edition in 1982, this title explains all the usual technical terms in an accessible manner. |
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THE IMPORTANCE OF FORM I | 1 |
THE PHYSICAL FORM OF POETRY | 8 |
A METRE | 17 |
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abab alliteration anapaestic Anne Ridler anthologies associations Auden ballads basic metre basic pattern beauty blood Byron couplet criticism dactyl death effect emotional English poetry English Verse EXAMPLES experience feet feminine rhyme flowers foot free verse fuss fuss fuss fusspot George Macbeth give hypermetric syllable iambic pentameters imagery intellectual form interesting intonation inverted John kind language literary London lyric meaning metre Milton modern narrative onomatopoeia Oxford Book Penguin Book perhaps physical form pleasure poem poetic poets probably prose prosody quatrain reader refrain repeating repetition rhyme-scheme rhymes rhythm Robin Skelton sense Shakespeare short sing sometimes songs sonnets sound speech stanza stressed syllable student suggest syllabic verse T. S. Eliot teacher technique Tennyson tetrameter things thou tion trochaic trochee University Press unstressed usually variations Vernon Scannell verse form vowel W. H. Auden Wilfred Owen words Wordsworth write