Rhyme's reason : a guide to English verse /

Poet John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse in this classic text, illustrating each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example. In new essays for this fourth edition, J.D. McClatchy and Richard Wilbur each offer a personal take on why the book has...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hollander, John (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
Edition:4th edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Schemes
  • Verse systems
  • Accentual-syllabic verse
  • Versification
  • Accentual meters
  • Pure syllabic verse
  • Free verse
  • Aberrant forms
  • Ode forms
  • Quantitative verse
  • Classical meters and their adaptations
  • Repetitive structures
  • Comical schemes
  • Rehtorical schemes
  • Variation and mimesis
  • More on rhyming
  • Uncommon schemes.