The complete rhyming dictionary, and poet's craft book / edited by Clement Wood.
| Author/creator | Wood, Clement |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Halcyon House, 1938, ©1936. |
| Description | x, 607 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The poet's craft book. Poetry and versification. Poetry and verse ; Poetry in human affairs ; The poet's equipment ; Poetic greatness ; How poems come ; Originality in poetry -- The technique of versification: rhythm. Accent and rhythm ; Metre and metric feet ; Iambic verse ; Trochaic verse ; Anapestic verse ; Dactylic verse ; Variations in metric verse ; Accent pattern instead of metric ; Blank verse and free verse ; Line length in verse ; Important classical terms for poetic devices -- The technique of versification: rhyme. Correct and incorrect rhyme ; Function and types of rhyme ; Undesirable rhymes ; Alliteration ; Assonance ; Consonance ; Your mental rhyming dictionary -- Stanza patterns. The couplet ; The triplet or tercet ; The quatrain ; Stanzas of more than four lines ; Sapphics and other classic forms ; Indentation -- Divisions of poetry. Narrative poetry: the epic, the metrical romance, the tale, the ballad ; Dramatic poetry ; Lyric poetry: the ode, the elegy, the pastoral ; The simple lyric: the song ; The sonnet -- The French forms, light and humorous verse. Formal and light verse ; Rules of the fixed verse forms ; The ballade family ; Chain verse ; The kyrielle ; The pantoum ; The triolet ; The rondel, rondeau and roundel family ; The sestina ; The villanelle ; The lai and the virelai ; The limerick ; Little Willies ; Light verse in English -- Poetry and technique. The vocabulary of poetry ; On translating poetry ; Exercises in versification -- The complete rhyming dictionary. What rhyme is ; The vowel sounds ; The consonant sounds ; Sound does not depend on spelling ; This dictionary makes consonance accurate ; Why this is called complete -- The dictionary of rhyming words. Monosyllables and words accented on the last syllable, masculine rhymes, single rhymes. Accented vowel sounds (A, E, I, O, U) -- Words accented on the syllable before the last: penults, feminine rhymes, double rhymes. Accented vowel sounds (A, E, I, O, U) -- Words accented on the third syllable from the end: antepenults, triple rhymes. Accented vowel sounds (A, E, I, O, U). |
| LCCN | 36033386 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Item at the bindery | PE1519 .W6 1938 | Item at the bindery | Want This? |