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The Prosody Handbook: A Guide to Poetic Form

The Prosody Handbook: A Guide to Poetic Form

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Series: Dover Literature: Poetry

Writing InstructionPoetry Criticism

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ISBN10: 048644967X
ISBN13: 9780486449678
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Jun 16 2006
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.48
Language: English
Written by two major American poets, this guide to versification is immensely useful for anyone interested in poetry or in general poetic structure. Its systematic study of meter, tempo, rhyme, and other components of verse incorporates countless vivid illustrative examples.
Concise and informal, The Prosody Handbook progresses from the smaller elements to the larger: from syllables to feet to lines to stanzas, and from smaller stanzas to larger ones. Its modified notation for marking times and stresses is easily understandable. The extensive and expanded material in the chapter titled Scansions and Comments introduces the manifold problems of scansion, confronting readers with the necessity of considering a poem's prosody simultaneously with all its other elements and aspects.

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