Metre, Rhythm and Verse FormPsychology Press, 1996 - 196 pages Poetry 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. |
Contents
Blank verse | 10 |
The heroic couplet | 22 |
Rhyme and pararhyme | 36 |
Sprung verse | 53 |
Quantity and syllabics | 71 |
Free verse | 89 |
Verse forms i | 121 |
Verse forms ii | 149 |
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Common terms and phrases
amphibrachic ballad begins blank verse cadenced verse called counterpoint dactylic Daryush death dimeter Donne dramatic effect elegy Eliot English verse 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 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 modern Moore narrative norm ottava rima pararhyme pause Petrarchan poem poetry poets prose quantity rhyme scheme rhyming alternately rhythmic satirical Seamus Heaney sense sestet sestina Shakespeare song song-lyric sonnet sorrow sound sprung rhythm sprung verse Stevie Smith stress pattern syllables tercet terza rima tetrameters third lines thou three-line thrust trimeter twentieth century usually variegation variety verse forms villanelle voice vowels W. H. Auden William words Wordsworth wrote