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Rhyme's reason : a guide to English verse / John Hollander.

Title
  1. Rhyme's reason : a guide to English verse / John Hollander.
Published by
  1. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
  2. ©2014
Author
  1. Hollander, John

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Additional authors
  1. McClatchy, J. D., 1945-2018
  2. Wilbur, Richard, 1921-2017
Description
  1. xxii, 142 pages : illustration; 20 cm
Summary
  1. 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 played such an important role in the education of young poets and student scholars.
Subject
  1. Handbooks and manuals
  2. English language > Versification
Genre/Form
  1. Handbooks and manuals
Contents
  1. 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.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-140) and index.
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