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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... least a shade more stress than the syllable it follows . But they suggest that the art of iambic verse , especially of iambic pentameter , is an art requiring continuous negotiation of the stress - values of syllables . Even if , as we ...
... least a shade more stress than the syllable it follows . But they suggest that the art of iambic verse , especially of iambic pentameter , is an art requiring continuous negotiation of the stress - values of syllables . Even if , as we ...
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... least two struc- tural orders simultaneously audible in iambic pentameter — the metrical and the phrasal ( actual lines and stanzas , and actual phrases and sen- tences ) -- and their varied rhythmic interplay constitutes the great ...
... least two struc- tural orders simultaneously audible in iambic pentameter — the metrical and the phrasal ( actual lines and stanzas , and actual phrases and sen- tences ) -- and their varied rhythmic interplay constitutes the great ...
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... least fairly new , certainly new in its force , its range , its power ; and every line they wrote was not at all ( as the lines of nineteenth- and twentieth - century poets often are ) an invoca- tion of a sacred tradition . They could ...
... least fairly new , certainly new in its force , its range , its power ; and every line they wrote was not at all ( as the lines of nineteenth- and twentieth - century poets often are ) an invoca- tion of a sacred tradition . They could ...
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... least from Sidney's time to our own , for it not only appears in single feet but combines with other kinds of feet to provide a rich storehouse of differently shaped and sounded phrases.2 The rareness of this kind of spondee in Chaucer ...
... least from Sidney's time to our own , for it not only appears in single feet but combines with other kinds of feet to provide a rich storehouse of differently shaped and sounded phrases.2 The rareness of this kind of spondee in Chaucer ...
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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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