Rhyme's Reason A Guide to English Verse

Name: Rhyme's Reason A Guide to English Verse
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ISBN: 9780300088328

ISBN-10: 0300088329

ISBN-13: 9780300088328

Edition: 3rd 2001

Authors: John Hollander

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In his classic text Rhyme's Reason, John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse, illustrating each variation with a self-descriptive example. It includes examples taken from centuries of poetry that exhibit these patterns.

Book details

List price: $11.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 2/8/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 154
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English

John Hollander has edited several Everyman's Library Pocket Poet volumes, including "Robert Frost", "Christmas Poems", "War Poems", "Marriage Poems", "Animal Poems", & "Garden Poems". He is the A. Bartlett Biamatti Professor of English at Yale University, & the author of numerous books of poetry & criticism. He was made a MacArthur Fellow in 1990.



Preface to the Third Edition


Introduction


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


Appendix


Patterns in Practice


Suggestions for Further Reading


Index