All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing

Preface to the Second Edition xiii


Acknowledgments xvii

Introduction

Part One: Iambic Verse

1

Metrical Norm and Rhythmical Modulation

2

Scansion and Metrical Variation

. Principles of Scansion

. The Principal Iambic Meters

. The Three Common Metrical Variations in Iambic Verse: The Trochaic Substitution

in the First Foot, the Mid-line Trochaic Substitution, and the Feminine Ending

. Less Common Trochaic Substitutions and Trochees That Maybe Are Not Trochees

. Loose Iambic-Iambic Verse with Anapestic Substitutions

. Other Variants: Divided Lines, Clipped Lines, Broken-Backed Lines,

and Feminine Caesuras

3

Additional Sources of Rhythmical Modulation, Including Enjambment,

Caesural Pause, and Word Length

4

The Story of Elision, Including the Famous Rise, Troublesome Reign,

and Tragical Fall of the Metrical Apostrophe

. The Practice and Conventions of Elision

. Elision and Changing Views about Syllable Count

. How Real Is Elision? And What Are We, Finally, to Think of It?

5

Boundless Wealth from a Finite Store:Meter and Grammar

Part Two: Other Matters, Other Meters

6

Rhyme

. The Background and History of Rhyme

. The Two Common Types of Rhyme in English-

Full and Partial-and Some of Their Varieties

. The Use of Rhyme

Seven

Stanzas

8

Trochaic and Trisyllabic Meters

9

Alternative Modes of Versification in English

. Accentual Verse

. Syllabic Verse

. Free Verse

. Imitation-Classical Verse

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Permissions and Copyrights

Index

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• Estudos literários: poesia e poetas

poetry; verse; creative writing; how to evaluate poetry; writing poetry; formal aspects of poetry; poems; formalist poetry; organized verse; poetics; New Formalism; verse craft; sonnet; lyric poetry