Rhyme's Reason; A Guide to English Verse,

In his classic text, Rhyme's Reason, the distinguished poet and critic John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse, illustrating each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example. In this substantially expanded and revised edition, Hollander adds a section of examples taken from centuries of poetry that exhibit the patterns he has described.

Preface to the Third Edition

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Introduction

1

(2)

Schemes

3

(1)

Verse Systems

4

(1)

Accentual-Syllabic Verse

5

(6)

The pentameter line and others

5

(6)

Versification

11

(10)

monostich

11

(1)

blank verse

12

(1)

fourteeners

13

(1)

rhyming

14

(1)

couplets

15

(1)

tercets

16

(1)

quatrains

16

(1)

other stanzaic forms

17

(2)

kinds of sonnet

19

(2)

Accentual Meters

21

(2)

Old English

22

(1)

sprung rhythm

22

(1)

skeltonics

22

(1)

Pure Syllabic Verse

23

(3)

haiku

24

(1)

cinquain

25

(1)

Free Verse

26

(4)

Aberrant Forms

30

(3)

antiverse

30

(1)

pattern-poem

31

(1)

concrete poem

32

(1)

Ode Forms

33

(1)

Quantitative Verse

34

(1)

Classical Meters and Their Adaptations

35

(2)

elegiacs

36

(1)

alcaics

36

(1)

hendecasyllabics

36

(1)

acrostics

37

(1)

echo verse

37

(1)

Repetitive Structures

37

(9)

carol and refrain

37

(3)

villanelle

40

(1)

sestina

40

(2)

ballade

42

(1)

rondeau

43

(1)

triolet

43

(1)

pantoum

43

(1)

blues and thirty-two bar standard song

44

(2)

Comical Schemes

46

(2)

limerick

46

(1)

clerihew

46

(1)

double-dactyl

47

(1)

Rhetorical Schemes

48

(2)

epic simile

48

(1)

zeugma

48

(1)

anacoluthon

48

(1)

apostrophe

48

(1)

anaphora

48

(1)

homoeoteleuton

48

(1)

chiasmus

49

(1)

Variation and Mimesis

50

(4)

imitative form

52

(1)

representative versification

53

(1)

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Rhyme's Reason; A Guide to English Verse, Third Edition

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