The Poet's Craft - A Handbook of Rhyme, Metre and Verse
Published on 29. March 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-0-340-80292-2 (ISBN)
Description
From the haiku to the sonnet, from the dactyl to the trochee, The Poet's Craft provides a handy guide to the forms and devices used by poets over the centuries. Arranged alphabetically for easy reference, the book explains clearly, with examples, the different forms of rhyme, metre and verse with which poets shape their ideas.
This highly practical handbook will appeal to professional and amateur writers alike, as well as being invaluable to English teachers and students. It will become an essential text on courses in all areas of English, Drama and Creative Writing and at a range of different levels, spanning from AS/A level to those in Further Education.
This highly practical handbook will appeal to professional and amateur writers alike, as well as being invaluable to English teachers and students. It will become an essential text on courses in all areas of English, Drama and Creative Writing and at a range of different levels, spanning from AS/A level to those in Further Education.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hachette Learning
Target group
College/higher education
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Interest Age: From 14 to 16 years
Illustrations
1 calligram
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
164 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-340-80292-2 (9780340802922)
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Person
Sandy Brownjohn is the well-known and respected author of many succesful books on the writing of poetry in schools as well as other inspirational educational publications. She is an educational consultant in the UK, with many years' experience as a teacher. She is also a published poet for children.
Content
1: Rhyme
: Alliteration
: Amphisbaenic Rhyme
: Anagram Rhyme
: Assonance
: Beginning Rhyme
: Consonance
: End Rhyme
: Eye Rhyme
: Full Rhyme
: Half Rhyme
: Identical Rhyme
: Internal Rhyme
: Perfect Rhyme
: Onomatopoeia
: Repetition
: Rhyme
: True Rhyme
2: Metre
: Alexandrine
: Amphibrach
: Anapest
: Blank Verse
: Caesura
: Dactyl
: Dimeter
: Feminine Ending
: Foot
: Heptameter
: Iamb
: Masculine Ending
: Metre
: Monometer
: Octometer
: Paeon
: Pentameter
: Rhythm
: Scansion
: Spondee
: Sprung Rhythm
: Syllabic Verse
: Tetrameter
: Trimeter
: Trochee
3: Verse
: Acrostic
: Alcaic Verse
: Ballad
: Ballade
: Calligram
: Chain Verse
: Chant Royal
: Cinquain
: Clerihew
: Concrete Poetry
: Couplet
: Doggerel
: Echo Verse
: Elegiac Stanza
: End-stopped line
: Englyn
: Envoi
: Epic Verse
: Epigram
: Free Verse
: Haiku
: Heroic Couplet
: Kyrielle
: Lay
: Light Verse
: Limerick
: Little Willie
: Lyric Poetry
: Metaphor
: Minute
: Naga-Uta
: Nonsense Verse
: Octave
: Octet
: Ode
: Ottava Rima
: Pantoum
: Parody
: Quatrain
: Quintain
: Refrain
: Renga
: Rhyme Royal
: Riddle
: Rondeau
: Rondeau Redouble
: Rondel
: Rondelet
: Roundel
: Rubai
: Ruthless Rhymes
: Sapphic Verse
: Satire
: Septet
: Sestet
: Sestina
: Sextain
: Sicilian Octave
: Simile
: Sonnet
: Spenserian Stanza
: Stanza
: Tanka
: Tercet
: Terza Rima
: Triolet
: Triplet
: Villanelle
: Alliteration
: Amphisbaenic Rhyme
: Anagram Rhyme
: Assonance
: Beginning Rhyme
: Consonance
: End Rhyme
: Eye Rhyme
: Full Rhyme
: Half Rhyme
: Identical Rhyme
: Internal Rhyme
: Perfect Rhyme
: Onomatopoeia
: Repetition
: Rhyme
: True Rhyme
2: Metre
: Alexandrine
: Amphibrach
: Anapest
: Blank Verse
: Caesura
: Dactyl
: Dimeter
: Feminine Ending
: Foot
: Heptameter
: Iamb
: Masculine Ending
: Metre
: Monometer
: Octometer
: Paeon
: Pentameter
: Rhythm
: Scansion
: Spondee
: Sprung Rhythm
: Syllabic Verse
: Tetrameter
: Trimeter
: Trochee
3: Verse
: Acrostic
: Alcaic Verse
: Ballad
: Ballade
: Calligram
: Chain Verse
: Chant Royal
: Cinquain
: Clerihew
: Concrete Poetry
: Couplet
: Doggerel
: Echo Verse
: Elegiac Stanza
: End-stopped line
: Englyn
: Envoi
: Epic Verse
: Epigram
: Free Verse
: Haiku
: Heroic Couplet
: Kyrielle
: Lay
: Light Verse
: Limerick
: Little Willie
: Lyric Poetry
: Metaphor
: Minute
: Naga-Uta
: Nonsense Verse
: Octave
: Octet
: Ode
: Ottava Rima
: Pantoum
: Parody
: Quatrain
: Quintain
: Refrain
: Renga
: Rhyme Royal
: Riddle
: Rondeau
: Rondeau Redouble
: Rondel
: Rondelet
: Roundel
: Rubai
: Ruthless Rhymes
: Sapphic Verse
: Satire
: Septet
: Sestet
: Sestina
: Sextain
: Sicilian Octave
: Simile
: Sonnet
: Spenserian Stanza
: Stanza
: Tanka
: Tercet
: Terza Rima
: Triolet
: Triplet
: Villanelle