Index of Poetry. Highlights for Poetry. Books of Poetry Form. How to Write Poetry. |
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. |
Postmodernism Las formas de la poesía en Español: El Poema Concreto. |
Books of Poetry Form. |
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A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z |
(See also Euphony, Near Rhyme, Resonance, Sound Devices)
(Compare Alliteration,
Consonance,
Modulation,
Rhyme)]
SIGMUND FREUD Became more annoyed when his id fled to Madrid. |
aabba |
The feet of the lines are usually anapests.
meter is the abstract pattern behind the rhythm
. . . meter is
. . . the ruler-like symmetry.
[Pinsky: The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide, p. 53] |
The following notes are courtesy of Katsuhiko Momoi, the Japanese linguist and poet.
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For an additional view, see Richard Gibert's essay Stalking the Wild Onji: The Search for Current Linguistic Terms Used in Japanese Poetry Circles. He "investigates the historic usage of onji as a linguistic term in Japan and presents an argument for its removal from usage, as currently construed, by the international haiku community."
He acknowledges the mora: "perceptually-speaking, Japanese speech is composed of small, timed units of sound, rather than syllables. Mora (plural, morae) is the term that both Japanese and English linguists often use to identify the 'time-unit sounds' of speech, which when put together, compose words in spoken Japanese."
abccb |
[R]hythm is the sounds of an actual line,
while meter is the abstract pattern behind the rhythm.
. . .
Rhythm is the reality
. . . and meter
. . . is the ruler-like symmetry.
[Pinsky: The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide, p. 53] |
Ernst Häublein's The Stanza (1978) is a handy 125-page survey of the uses of the stanza in English-language poetry.
A(1) B A(2) b C B c D C d E D e F E f A(1) F A(2) Alternate last stanza format: f F A(1) A(2) |
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