Tables of Contents for Rhyme's Reason

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Tables of Contents for Rhyme's Reason

Chapter/Section Title

Page #

Page Count

Preface to the Third Edition

ix

Introduction

1

2

Schemes

3

1

Verse Systems

4

1

Accentual-Syllabic Verse

5

6

The pentameter line and others

5

6

Versification

11

10

monostich

11

1

blank verse

12

1

fourteeners

13

1

rhyming

14

1

couplets

15

1

tercets

16

1

quatrains

16

1

other stanzaic forms

17

2

kinds of sonnet

19

2

Accentual Meters

21

2

Old English

22

1

sprung rhythm

22

1

skeltonics

22

1

Pure Syllabic Verse

23

3

haiku

24

1

cinquain

25

1

Free Verse

26

4

Aberrant Forms

30

3

antiverse

30

1

pattern-poem

31

1

concrete poem

32

1

Ode Forms

33

1

Quantitative Verse

34

1

Classical Meters and Their Adaptations

35

2

elegiacs

36

1

alcaics

36

1

hendecasyllabics

36

1

acrostics

37

1

echo verse

37

1

Repetitive Structures

37

9

carol and refrain

37

3

villanelle

40

1

sestina

40

2

ballade

42

1

rondeau

43

1

triolet

43

1

pantoum

43

1

blues and thirty-two bar standard song

44

2

Comical Schemes

46

2

limerick

46

1

clerihew

46

1

double-dactyl

47

1

Rhetorical Schemes

48

2

epic simile

48

1

zeugma

48

1

anacoluthon

48

1

apostrophe

48

1

anaphora

48

1

homoeoteleuton

48

1

chiasmus

49

1

Variation and Mimesis

50

4

imitative form

52

1

representative versification

53

1

More on Rhyming

54

6

anomalous rhyming

55

1

laisses

56

1

line indentation

57

2

blank-verse sonnet

59

1

Uncommon Schemes

60

11

unequal couplet

60

1

Pushkin's stanza

60

1

canzone

61

3

rondel and roundel

64

1

rondeau redouble

65

1

accentual hexameters

66

1

ad hoc rhythms

66

1

Leonine Rhyme

67

1

rhopalics

67

1

tanka

68

1

pantun

68

1

ghazals

68

2

luc-bat

70

1

Appendix

71

16

Patterns in Practice

87

50

Suggestions for Further Reading

137

2

Index

139