Poetry Form: books by Derek Attridge:
Poetic Rhythm
comments by Ariadne Unst.

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Essays on how to write specific forms:
* Haibun. * Haiku. * Hay(na)ku. * Rengay. * Tanka.
* Concrete. * Ghazal. * Lai. * Pantoum. * Rondeau. * Rubáiyát. * Sestina. * Skaldic verse. * Sonnet. * Terza rima. * Triolet. * Tritina. * Villanelle.
* Attridge: Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction. * Pinsky: The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide.
Las formas de la poesía en Español:
* El Poema Concreto.
* Books of Poetry Form.

Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction (1995)
by Derek Attridge

Buy Attridge's 'Poetic Rhythm' Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction (1995)
by Derek Attridge.

Brilliantly insightful. Buy it!

The Ode Less Travelled:
Unlocking the Poet Within (2006)
by Stephen Fry.

Contents

Chapters:

  1. The rhythms of poetry: a first approach.
  2. The rhythms of spoken English.
  3. Dancing language. Introduces how languages becomes metrical. Focuses on the four-beat version of meter.
  4. Stress verse and strong-stress verse: counting the beats. [ "stress meter, the most common type of English meter outside the literary canon."]
  5. Syllable-stress verse: versatility and variation.
  6. Major types of syllable-stress verse.
  7. Free verse: metrical and rhythmic analysis.
  8. Phrasal movement. [Indebtednes to Cureton is clearly credited.]

Appendices:

  1. Scansion: scanning poetry; single-line scansion; double-line scansion.
  2. Glossary.
  3. Sources of examples.
  4. Suggested responses to the exercises. [ * How terrific of Attridge to include this section! * ]

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