Rhyme's reason : a guide to English verse /
In this classic text, the distinguished poet and critic John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse, illustrating each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example. In new essays for this revised edition, J. D. McClatchy and Richard Wilbur each offer a p...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2014]
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| Edition: | 4th edition. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword to the Fourth Edition, by""; ""Preface to the Third Edition""; ""Introduction""; ""Schemes""; ""Verse Systems""; ""Accentual-Syllabic Verse""; ""The pentameter line and others""; ""Versification""; ""Monostitch""; ""Blank verse""; ""Fourteeners""; ""Rhyming""; ""Couplets""; ""Tercets""; ""Quatrains""; ""Other stanzaic forms""; ""Kinds of sonnet""; ""Accentual Meters""; ""Old English""; ""Sprung rhythm""; ""Skeltonics""; ""Pure Syllabic Verse""; ""Haiku""; ""Cinquain""; ""Free Verse""; ""Aberrant Forms""; ""Antiverse""; ""Pattern-poem""; ""Concrete poem""
- ""Ode Forms""""Quantitative Verse""; ""Classical Meters and Their Adaptations""; ""Elegiacs""; ""Alcaics""; ""Hendecasyllabics""; ""Acrostics""; ""Echo verse""; ""Repetitive Structures""; ""Carol and refrain""; ""Villanelle""; ""Sestina""; ""Ballade""; ""Rondeau""; ""Triolet""; ""Pantoum""; ""Blues and thirtytwo bar standard song""; ""Comical Schemes""; ""Limerick""; ""Clerihew""; ""Double-dactyl""; ""Rhetorical Schemes""; ""Epic simile""; ""Zeugma""; ""Anacoluthon""; ""Apostrophe""; ""Anaphora""; ""Homoeoteleuton""; ""Chiasmus""; ""Variation and Mimesis""; ""Imitative form""
- ""Representative versification""""More on Rhyming""; ""Anomalous rhyming""; ""Laisses""; ""Line indentation""; ""Blank-verse sonnet""; ""Uncommon Schemes""; ""Unequal couplet""; ""Pushkin's stanza""; ""Canzone""; ""Rondel and roundel""; ""Rondeau redouble""; ""Accentual hexameters""; ""Ad hoc rhythms""; ""Leonine Rhyme""; ""Rhopalics""; ""Tanca""; ""Pantun""; ""Ghazals""; ""Luc-bdt""; ""Appendix""; ""Patterns in Practice""; ""Afterword to the Fourth Edition, by Richard Wilbur""; ""Suggestions for Further Reading""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""
- ""M""""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""Z""
