The Teachers and Writers Handbook of Poetic

This bestselling reference guide includes 76 entries on traditional and modern poetic forms. Defined in alphabetical order, each entry is allotted 1-7 pages with examples and histories of-and ideas for using-each form.

Ron Padgett teaches creative writing at Brooklyn College, and is the former Publications Director of Teachers and Writers Collaborative

Acknowledgments

vii

Table of Figures

xii

Preface

xiii

Poetic Forms

Abstract Poem

1

(3)

Acrostic

4

(2)

Allegory

6

(2)

Alliteration

8

(3)

Alphabet Poem

11

(3)

Apostrophe

14

(2)

Assonance

16

(2)

Ballad

18

(4)

Ballade

22

(3)

Blank Verse

25

(4)

Blues Poem

29

(3)

Bouts-Rimes

32

(2)

Calligram

34

(4)

Canto

38

(2)

Canzone

40

(2)

Cento

42

(3)

Chant

45

(4)

Cinquain

49

(2)

Collaboration

51

(2)

Concrete Poem

53

(5)

Couplet

58

(2)

Eclogue

60

(2)

Elegy

62

(3)

Epic

65

(2)

Epigram

67

(2)

Epistle

69

(2)

Epitaph

71

(2)

Epithalamium

73

(1)

Event Poem

74

(2)

Foot

76

(3)

Found Poem

79

(3)

Free Verse

82

(2)

Ghazal

84

(2)

Haiku

86

(3)

Imitation

89

(2)

Insult Poem

91

(2)

Light Verse

93

(1)

Limerick

94

(2)

Line

96

(4)

List Poem

100

(3)

Lune

103

(2)

Lyric

105

(2)

Macaronic Verse

107

(3)

Madrigal

110

(2)

Metaphor

112

(3)

Nonsense Verse

115

(2)

Occasional Poem

117

(1)

Ode

118

(6)

Ottava Rima

124

(2)

Pantoum

126

(3)

Parody

129

(3)

Pastoral Poem

132

(2)

Performance Poem

134

(6)

Projective Verse

140

(2)

Prose Poem

142

(2)

Quatrain

144

(2)

Rap

146

(2)

Renga

148

(4)

Rhyme

152

(2)

Rhythm

154

(2)

Ritual Poem

156

(4)

Rondeau

160

(3)

Satire

163

(5)

Senryu

168

(2)

Sestina

170

(5)

Skeltonic Verse

175

(3)

Sonnet

178

(3)

Spoonerism

181

(2)

Stanza

183

(2)

Syllabic Verse

185

(2)

Tanka

187

(2)

Tercet

189

(3)

Terza Rima

192

(2)

Triolet

194

(3)

Villanelle

197

(3)

Walk Poem

200

(7)

Word Play

207

(1)

Appendix A: Other Forms

208

(1)

Appendix B: Authors Cited

209

(6)

Bibliography

215

(8)

Other Resources:

Audiocassettes

223

(1)

Videocassettes

224

(2)

CD-ROMs

226

(1)

Web Sites

227

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The Teachers and Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms

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