The Complete rhyming dictionary and poet's craft book.

xii, 607 p. ; 22 cm.

pt. 1. Poetry and versification -- pt. 2. The technique of versification; rhythm: Accent and rhythm -- Metre and metric feet -- Iambic verse -- Trochaic verse -- Anapestic verse -- Dactylic verse -- Variations in metric verse -- Accent pattern instead of metric -- Blank verse and free verse -- Line length in verse -- Important classical terms for poetic devices -- pt. 3. The technique of versification; rhyme: Correct and incorrect rhyme -- Function and types of rhyme -- Undesirable rhymes -- Alliteration -- Assonance -- Consonance -- pt. 4. Stanza patterns: The couplet -- The triplet or tercet -- The quatrain -- Stanzas of more than four lines -- Sapphics and other classic forms -- Indentation -- pt. 5. Divisions of poetry: Narrative poetry (the epic, the metrical romance, the tale, the ballad) -- Dramatic poetry -- Lyric poetry (the ode, the elegy, the pastoral) -- The simple lyric (the song) -- The sonnet -- pt. 6. The French forms, light and humorous verse: Formal and light verse -- Rules of the fixed verse forms -- The ballade family -- Chain verse -- The kyrielle -- The pantoum -- The triolet -- The rondel, rondeau and roundel family -- The sestina -- The villanelle -- The lai and the virelai -- The limerick -- Little Willies -- Light verse in English -- pt. 7. Poetry and technique: The vocabulary of poetry -- On translating poetry -- Exercises in versification -- pt. 8. The complete rhyming dictionary: What rhyme is -- The vowel sounds -- The consonant sounds -- Sound does not depend on spelling -- The dictionary makes consonance accurate -- pt. 9. The dictionary of rhyming words: no. 1. Monosyllables and words accented on the last syllable; masculine rhymes; single rhymes: Accented vowel sounds (A, E, I, O, U) -- no. 2. Words accented on the syllable before the last; penults; feminine rhymes; double rhymes: Accented vowel sounds (A, E, I, O, U) -- no. 3. Words accented on the third syllable from the end; antepenults, triple rhymes: Accented vowel sounds (A, E, I, O, U).

426 W874c 1936