Be a PoetTwickenham Press, 2007 - 420 páginas Originally published in 2007 by Twickenham Press, Be a Poet! is a friendly, accessible guidebook for beginning poets of all ages and situations, containing many exercises designed to expand their repertoire of rhythms and forms. Bogen uses examples from canonical poets like Carl Sandburg and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as well as three contemporary poets whom she has interviewed personally about their writing habits and tricks. This handbook for the poetically inclined includes in-depth coverage of words and how to use them effectively, plus chapters on rhyming, rhythm, the iamb from blank verse to the various forms of the sonnet, and exotica like art songs, Pindaric and Horatian odes, and terza rima. Its concluding appendix listing addresses of writers' organizations is especially useful. |
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... four ) plus the word meter . So a single line or several lines of verse or a whole block could consist of so many feet per line and be referred to as monom- eter ( one ) , dimeter ( two ) , trimeter ( three ) , tetrameter ( four ) ...
... four lines in all and a fair number of end- rhymes in “ outer ” and “ harbor , ” “ dredged ” and “ toward ... four lines of the poem , nine of the lines consist of six syllables and another seventeen of the lines of four , five 173 ...
... four - line ballad stanza and many of the hymns of Isaac Watts and John and Charles Wesley , all three of the eighteenth century , are identical . The stanza consists of alternating lines of iambic tetram- eter and trimeter ; possibly ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
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