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Rules for the dance

Rules for the dance
A handbook for writing and reading metrical verse

Published 1998 by Houghton Mifflin in Boston, USA .
Written in English.

Table of Contents

Part 1 The rules
1 Breath 3
2 Patterns 6
3 More about patterns 19
4 Design : line length 29
5 Release of energy along the line 36
6 Design : rhyme 40
7 Design : traditional forms 50
8 Words on a string 57
9 Mutes and other sounds 60
10 The use of meter in non-metric verse 62
11 Ohs and the ahs 65
12 Image-making 67
Part 2 The dancers one by one
13 Style 79
Part 3 Scansion, and the actual work
14 Scansion : reading the metrical poem 87
15 Scansion : writing the metrical poem 90
16 Yourself dancing : the actual work 93
Part 4 A universal music
17 Then and now 103
Envoi 104
Part 5 An anthology of metrical poems 109

Edition Notes

A Mariner Original

Copyright Date
1998

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808.1
Library of Congress
PE1505 .O37 1998

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
x, 194 p.
Dimensions
8.25 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24548189M
ISBN 10
039585086X
ISBN 13
9780395850862

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