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Foreword xiii How to Read this Book. Three Golden Rules xxiii 1 Metre I How We Speak. Meet Metre. The Great Iamb. The Iambic Pentameter. Poetry Exercises 1 & 2 I II End-stopping, Enjambment and Caesura. Poetry Exercise 3.Weak Endings, Trochaic and Pyrhhic Substitutions. Substitutions. Poetry Exercise 4 21 III More Metres: Four Beats to the Line. Mixed Feet. Poetry Exercise 5 55 IV Ternary Feet:The Dactyl, The Molossus and Tribrach, The Amphibrach, The Amphimacer, Quaternary Feet. Poetry Exercise 6 77 V Anglo-Saxon Attitudes. Poetry Exercise 7. Sprung Rhythm. 97 VI SyllabicVerse. Poetry Exercises 8 & 9: Coleridge's 'Lesson for a Boy'. 113 TABLE OF METRIC FEET 120 2 Rhyme I The Basic Categories of Rhyme. Partial Rhymes. Feminine and Triple Rhymes. Rich Rhyme. 123 II Rhyming Arrangements. r43 III Good and Bad Rhyme? A Thought Experiment. Rhyming Practice and Rhyming Dictionaries. Poetry Exercise 10 I47 RHYME CATEGORIES i68 3 Form I The Stanza.What is Form and Why Bother with It? 171 II Stanzaic Variations. Open Forms:Terza Rima, The Quatrain, The Rubai, Rhyme Royal, Ottava Rima, Spenserian Stanza. Adopting and Adapting. Poetry Exercise 11 179 III The Ballad. Poetry Exercise 12 191 IV Heroic Verse. Poetry Exercise 13 202 V The Ode: Sapphic, Pindaric, Horatian, The Lyric Ode, Anacreontics. 209 VI Closed Forms: The Villanelle. Poetry Exercise 14. The Sestina. Poetry Exercise 15. The Pantoum, The Ballade. 221 VII More Closed Forms: Rondeau, Rondeau Redouble, Rondel, Roundel, Rondelet, Roundelay, Triolet, Kyrielle. Poetry Exercise 16 247 VIII Comic Verse: Cento, The Clerihew. The Limerick. Reflections on Comic and Impolite Verse. Light Verse. Parody. Poetry Exercise 17 261 IX Exotic Forms: Haiku, Senryu, Tanka. Ghazal. Luc Bat. Tanaga. Poetry Exercise 18 274 X The Sonnet: Petrarchan and Shakespearean. Curtal and caudate sonnets. Sonnet Variations and Romantic Duels. Poetry Exercise 19 281 XI ShapedVerse. Pattern Poems. Silly, Silly Forms. Acrostics. Poetry Exercise 20 293 4 Diction anrd Poetics ToLay I The Whale. The Cat and the Act. Madeline. Diction. Being Alert to Language. 307 II Poetic Vices. Ten Habits of Successful Poets that They Don't Teach You at Harvard Poetry School, or Chicken Verse for the Soul Is from Mars but You Are What You Read in Just Seven Days or Your Money Back. Getting Noticed. Poetry Today. Goodbye. 320