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Poetic Meter and Poetic Form

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Revised edition (1979)

Poetic Meter and Poetic Form is a book by Paul Fussell, published by McGraw Hill in 1965, and later as a revised edition in 1979 (ISBN 0-07-553606-4).

Fussell distinguishes four types of meter[1]:

  1. Syllabic
  2. Accentual
  3. Accentual-syllabic
  4. Quantitative

Notes

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  1. ^ page 6.