''Poetic Meter and Poetic Form'' is a book by

Paul Fussell Paul Fussell Jr. (22 March 1924 – 23 May 2012) was an American cultural and literary historian, author and university professor. His writings cover a variety of topics, from scholarly works on eighteenth-century English literature to commenta ...

, published by McGraw Hill in 1965, and later as a revised edition in 1979 (). Fussell distinguishes four types of meter: #

Syllabic Syllabic may refer to: *Syllable, a unit of speech sound, considered the building block of words **Syllabic consonant, a consonant that forms the nucleus of a syllable *Syllabary, writing system using symbols for syllables *Abugida, writing system ...

# Accentual # Accentual-syllabic #

Quantitative Quantitative may refer to: * Quantitative research, scientific investigation of quantitative properties * Quantitative analysis (disambiguation) * Quantitative verse, a metrical system in poetry * Statistics, also known as quantitative analysis ...

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# page 6. Poetic rhythm 1965 non-fiction books Poetic forms Books about poetry McGraw-Hill books {{lit-book-stub