The Prosody Handbook A Guide to Poetic Form

by Beum, Robert; Shapiro, Karl

• ISBN13: 9780486449678
• ISBN10: 048644967X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-16
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Written by two major American poets, this systematic study of meter, tempo, rhyme, and other components of verse incorporates countless vivid illustrative examples. Concise and informal, it progresses from the smaller elements to the larger: from syllables to feet to lines to stanzas, and from smaller stanzas to larger ones.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. viii
A Note on Terms	p. x
Prosody as a Study	p. 1
Poetry and Verse	p. 6
Syllables: Color, Stress, Quantity, Pitch	p. 8
The Foot	p. 27
The Line	p. 45
Accentual and Syllabic Verse	p. 53
Meter and Rhythm	p. 60
The Uses of Meter	p. 66
Tempo	p. 83
Rhyme	p. 86
The Uses of Rhyme	p. 96
The Stanza	p. 107
Stanza Forms	p. 111
The Sonnet	p. 135
Blank Verse	p. 141
Free Verse	p. 148
Classical Prosody	p. 153
Prosody and Period	p. 159
Scansions and Comments	p. 166
Glossary	p. 187
A Selected Bibliography	p. 209
Index	p. 219
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