Rhyme's reason : a guide to English verse

Hollander, John.

Book 1989

In Rhyme's Reason, a work that has already become a classic text, the distinguished poet and critic John Hollander surveyed the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse, illustrating each variation with an original and wittily self-descriptive example.

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ISBN:

9780300043068
0300043066

Edition:

New enlarged edition

Description:

vii, 88 pages ; 21 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-86)

Contents:

Schemes
Verse systems
Accentual-syllabic verse. The pentameter line and others
Versification. Monostich ; 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 thirty-two 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 redoublé ; Accentual hexameters ; Ad hoc rhythms ; Leonine rhyme ; Rhopalics ; Tanka ; Pantun ; Ghazals ; Lục-bát

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89050101

Control Number:

33890

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