Sound and Form in Modern Poetry: A Study of Prosody from Thomas Hardy to Robert Lowell

aesthetic alliteration anapests blank verse Bridges cadence caesura Cantos couplet Crane critical dactyls echoes effect emotion English verse excerpts Ezra Pound Faber falling rhythm feeling feet Four Quartets four-stress free verse Gerontion grammar hear hexameter Hopkins iambic iambs Ibid ideogram images Imagist language last line light Lowell Lowell's lyric meaning modern poetry monosyllabic move movement never night nonmetrical prosody passage pattern pause pentameter phonetic poem's poet poet's poetic Propertius prose quantity Ransom regular rhetorical stresses rhyme rhythmic structure Roethke scan scansion second foot sense sestina sing song sound speech spring sprung rhythm stanza Stevens strong-stress meter syllable-stress meter syllable-stress metric symbolic syntactical syntax T. S. Eliot technique texture theme theory thing Thomas tion traditional trisyllabic trochaic trochee unstressed syllables vers libre versification visual voice vowel W. H. Auden Waste Land Whitman Williams wind words Yeats Yvor Winters