ENGL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Iambic Pentameter, Scansion, Petrarchan Sonnet
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The curfew tolls the knell of parting day. Tennyson"s the eagle : prosody, systematic study of versification in poetry (abrams 318, versification consists of several elements, meter, sound patterns, rhyme. Iambic pentameter as the basic setout of the poem. Pyrrhic foot, to destress parts of the poem. The form shows how the eagle is unpredictable and powerful, with the sense of its energy being released. Shorter words tend to be unstressed in most cases. Closed and open forms: closed form, follows some sort of patterns , rhyme, meter, lines grouped into stanzas. Identifiable regular and symmetrical elements (kennedy 803: fixed form: a poem inherits from other poems certain familiar elements, the sonnet of structure (kennedy 809, 14 lines, rhymed throughout. Only thing a petrarchan sonnet should not have is a coupling at the end of the first tercet. Octave: statement of problem, situation, or incident.
