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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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2014]
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| Edition: | 4th edition. |
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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.