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Tables of Contents for Rules for the Dance
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
PART ONE: THE RULES
3
76
1. Breath
3
3
2. Patterns
6
13
3. More About Patterns
19
10
4. Design: Line Length
29
7
5. Release of Energy Along the Line
36
4
6. Design: Rhyme
40
10
7. Design: Traditional Forms
50
7
8. Words on a String
57
3
9. Mutes and Other Sounds
60
2
10. The Use of Meter in Non-Metric Verse
62
3
11. The Ohs and the Ahs
65
2
12. Image-Making
67
12
PART TWO: THE DANCERS ONE BY ONE
79
8
13. Style
79
8
PART THREE: SCANSION, AND THE ACTUAL WORK
87
16
14. Scansion: Reading the Metrical Poem
87
3
15. Scansion: Writing the Metrical Poem
90
3
16. Yourself Dancing: The Actual Work
93
10
PART FOUR: A UNIVERSAL MUSIC
103
6
17. Then and Now
103
1
Envoi
104
5
PART FIVE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF METRICAL POEMS
109
80
Permissions
189
1
Index
190