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| Introduction | |
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| Meters | |
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| Accentual Verse | |
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| Syllabics: Sweeter Melodies | |
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| Counted Verse: Upper Limit Music | |
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| Iambic Meter | |
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| Blank Verse | |
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| Anapestics | |
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| Running with Abandon: Some Notes on Trochaic Meter | |
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| Dactylic Meter: A Mary-Sounding Sea | |
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| Free Verse | |
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| All Composed in a Meter of Catullus: Hendecasyllabics | |
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| Pronouncing "Carpenter": Quantitative Meter in English | |
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| Off the Main Road: Some Maverick Meters | |
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| Stanzas | |
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| "The Bravest Sort of Verses": The Heroic Couplet | |
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| The Self-Engendering Muse: Terza Rima | |
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| The Quatrain | |
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| Sapphics | |
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| Ottava Rima | |
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| Spenser's Eponymous | |
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| The Decima: A Poetic Journey from Spain to New Mexico | |
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| Received Forms | |
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| The Folk Ballad | |
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| The Ballade: Exquisite Intricacy | |
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| The Blues | |
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| Taking Shape: The Art of Carmina Figurata | |
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| Gists, Piths, and Poison-Pills: The Art of the Epigram | |
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| Ghazal: To Be Teased into DisUnity | |
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| Haiku | |
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| Hip-Hop Rhyme Formations: Open Your Ears | |
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| Japanese-Style Linked Poems | |
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| Form Lite: Limericks and Clerihews | |
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| A Wand Made of Words: The Litany Poem | |
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| Musical Form and Formalist Poetry | |
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| The Pantoum's Postcolonial Pedigree | |
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| Strange Tales and Bitter Emergencies: A Few Notes on the Prose Poem | |
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| The Metrics of Rap | |
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| Rondeaux and Roundels | |
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| Sestina: The End Game | |
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| The Sonnet | |
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| Triolet: Trippingly on the Tongue | |
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| Gymnastics: The Villanelle | |
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| Principles for Formal Experimentation | |
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| Organic Form | |
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| Fractal Amplifications | |
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| Performance Poetry | |
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| Beyond Found Poetry | |
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| The List Poem | |
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| Procedural Poetry: The Intentions of Nonintention | |
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| Nude Formalism: A Sampler | |
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| Oulipian Poetry | |
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| Two American Verse Forms: The Cinquain and the Quatern | |
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| The Low Coup as a Contemporary Afro-American Verse Form | |
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| The Paradelle | |
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| Predetermined Avant-Garde Forms | |
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| Bibliography: Sources for Further Reading | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index of Names | |