Shakespeare's Metrical ArtThis is a wide-ranging, poetic analysis of the great English poetic line, iambic pentameter, as used by Chaucer, Sidney, Milton, and particularly by Shakespeare. George T. Wright offers a detailed survey of Shakespeare's brilliantly varied metrical keyboard and shows how it augments the expressiveness of his characters' stage language. |
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... accentual - syllabic meter in nineteenth- and twentieth- century poetry — I hope to trace more briefly in another book . Writing about iambic pentameter involves a critic in complex prob- lems of interpretation and procedure , questions ...
... accentual - syllabic meter in nineteenth- and twentieth- century poetry — I hope to trace more briefly in another book . Writing about iambic pentameter involves a critic in complex prob- lems of interpretation and procedure , questions ...
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... accentual , it measures the interval between stressed syllables by the time that elapses between them , without specify- ing how many unstressed syllables appear in that interval . In looser forms ( nursery rhymes , for example ) , the ...
... accentual , it measures the interval between stressed syllables by the time that elapses between them , without specify- ing how many unstressed syllables appear in that interval . In looser forms ( nursery rhymes , for example ) , the ...
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... accentual - syllabic pattern . It is especially when iambic poetry is cast in pentameter that these sources of complexity fully emerge . This is largely because pentameter is itself the most problematical line - length , and the mark of ...
... accentual - syllabic pattern . It is especially when iambic poetry is cast in pentameter that these sources of complexity fully emerge . This is largely because pentameter is itself the most problematical line - length , and the mark of ...
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... accentual five - stress line , even into a kind of shadow norm that we sense in poems , such as those of Ashbery , that point- edly steer clear of it . But from Shakespeare's time to the early nineteenth century ( and , except for the ...
... accentual five - stress line , even into a kind of shadow norm that we sense in poems , such as those of Ashbery , that point- edly steer clear of it . But from Shakespeare's time to the early nineteenth century ( and , except for the ...
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Contents
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Pattern and Variation | 38 |
4 Flexibility and Ease in Four Older Poets | 57 |
Shakespeares Sonnets | 75 |
6 The Verse of Shakespeares Theater | 91 |
7 Prose and Other Diversions | 108 |
8 Short and Shared Lines | 116 |
14 The Play of Phrase and Line | 207 |
15 Shakespeares Metrical Technique in Dramatic Passages | 229 |
16 What Else Shakespeares Meter Reveals | 249 |
17 Some Metrically Expressive Features in Donne and Milton | 264 |
Verse as Speech Theater Text Tradition Illusion | 281 |
Percentage Distribution of Prose in Shakespeares Plays | 291 |
Main Types of Deviant Lines in Shakespeares Plays | 292 |
Short and Shared Lines | 294 |
9 Long Lines | 143 |
More Than Meets the Ear | 149 |
11 Lines with Extra Syllables | 160 |
12 Lines with Omitted Syllables | 174 |
13 Trochees | 185 |
Notes | 297 |
Main Works Cited or Consulted | 325 |
Index | 339 |
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