Description |
viii, 54 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 53-54. |
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 redouble -- Accentual hexameters -- Ad hoc rhythms -- Leonine Rhyme -- Rhopalics -- Tanka -- Pantun -- Ghazals -- Luc-bat -- Patterns in Practice. |
Subject |
English language -- Versification.
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ISBN |
0300027354 |
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9780300027358 |
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0300027400 paperback |
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9780300027402 paperback |
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