Poetic Meter and Form
by Paul Fussell · Paul Fussell
Paul Fussell's compact study of English prosody, covering accentual-syllabic meter, metrical variation, the line, the stanza, and fixed forms, and showing how metrical choices create meaning, so you can scan and critically analyze poems.
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