Research Catalog

Title

Rhyme's reason : a guide to English verse / John Hollander.

Author

Hollander, John

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, c1981.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Quine, W. V. (Willard Van Orman)
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

viii, 54 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"In this classic text, 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. This substantially expanded and revised edition includes a section of examples taken from centuries of poetry that exhibit the schemes and patterns he has described. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

English language > Versification

Genre/Form

Association copies (Provenance)

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 53-54.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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 -- Patterns in Practice.

ISBN

• 0300027354
• 0300027400 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^81051342^

OCLC

• 7555160
• SCSB-11380531

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library