Rhyme's Reason; A Guide to English Verse, Third Edition

by John Hollander

• ISBN13: 9780300088328
• ISBN10: 0300088329
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2001-02-08
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

In his classic text, Rhyme's Reason, the distinguished poet and critic John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse, illustrating each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example. In this substantially expanded and revised edition, Hollander adds a section of examples taken from centuries of poetry that exhibit the patterns he has described.

Table of Contents

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