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Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide prose descriptions of over three hundred verse forms, with schematic diagrams, examples, and cross-references; and includes discussions of prose and verse writing, as well as various prosodic and metrical systems.

A guide to the elements of poetry focusing on the dramatic, lyric, and narrative.

Betty's bakery has been burgled, and it is up to the Gumshoe Zoo to solve the criminal conundrum of who stole (and ate) the purloined pastries.

Analyzes the work of the Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet, Seamus Heaney, discussing his diction, meter, imagery, and generic form, and including readings of Heaney's elegies, pastoral eclogues, and sonnets.

Examines the basic rules of scansion--the analysis of verse to show its meter; provides the author's thoughts on metrical prosody; and features a collection of metrical poems.

A reference guide for poets and writers, listing thousands of rhyming words, arranged by number of syllables in alphabetical format, and including information on patterns of rhythm, definitions and illustrations of each of the regular meters, and examples of lyric poetry forms.

A complete guide to the technique, forms, and rhyming words of English poetry.

Contains entries that provide explanations, information, and examples of seventy-six poetic forms; arranged alphabetically from abstract poem to word play.