Bibliograph

Patterns of poetry, an encyclopedia of forms, Miller Williams

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Patterns of poetry, an encyclopedia of forms, Miller Williams

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 195) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Patterns of poetry

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

13008844

Responsibility statement

Miller Williams

Sub title

an encyclopedia of forms

Table Of Contents

Form and the age -- Notes on the elements of poetic forms: Rhyme and other echoes -- The prosodic symbols -- The major feet -- Metrics -- Nonce forms -- Fully defines traditional stanza patterns: Short couplet -- Split couplet -- Skeltonic couplet -- Heroic couplet -- Elegiac couplet -- Poulter's measure -- Englyn Penfyr -- Englyn Milwr -- Dipodic quatrain -- Common measure -- Hymnal measure -- Short measure -- Short hymnal measure -- Long measure -- Long hymnal measure -- In Memoriam stanza -- Italian quatrain -- Sicilian quatrain -- Curtal quatrain -- Sapphics -- Awdyl Gywydd -- Englyn Proest Dalgron -- Cinquain -- Heroic Sestet -- Sicilian Sestet -- Short Sestet -- Split Sestet -- Clogyrnach -- Rime Royal -- Ottava Rima -- Spenserian Stanza -- Loosely defined traditional stanza patterns: Ghazal -- Tercet (Triplet) -- Ballad stanza -- Quintilla -- Bob and Wheel -- Traditional poems of set length: Haiku -- Clerihew -- Rubaiyat -- Tanka -- Limerick -- Rondelet -- Triolet -- Double Dactyl -- Rondel -- Curtal sonnet -- Short Rondel -- Rondeau Prime -- Rondell -- Rondel Prime -- Sonnet -- Rondeau -- Villanelle -- Terzanelle -- Caudate Sonnet -- Rondeau Redouble -- Ballade -- Ballade with double refrain -- Sestina -- Double Ballade with eight-line stanza -- Chant Royal -- Sonnet Redouble -- Traditional poems of indefinite length: Cywydd Deuair Hyrion -- Cywydd Deuair Fyrion -- Terza Rima -- Kyrielle -- Pantoum -- Cyhydedd Naw Ban -- Cyhydedd Hir -- Rhupunt -- English ode -- Pindaric ode -- Blank verse -- Anglo-Saxon verse -- Nonspecific forms and formal elements: Envelope verse -- Mirror image -- Tenzone -- Acrostic -- Spatials and concrete poetry -- Quantitative verse -- Syllabic verse -- Repeated terminal words as a line-ending pattern -- Variations on the stanzas: Split couplet variation -- Long hymnal measure variation -- Spenserian variation -- Heroic Sestet variation -- Variations on the poems: Rime Royal variation -- Sonnet variations -- Rondeau variations -- Sestina variations -- Terza Rima variations -- Blank verse variations -- Addition poems in the various patterns -- Some applications of certain devices of structural linguistics to prosody -- Some observations on the line

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