A Poet's Ear: A Handbook of Meter and Form

Part 1: Meter
	1. Forms Of Free Verse
		Six Types Of Free Verse
		Prose Poems
		The Line In Free Verse
		Rhythm In Free Verse
		Questions For Meditation Or Discussion
		Quotes
		Poetry Practices
	2. Hearing The Beat: Accent And Accentual Poetry
		Accent And Emotion
		Syllabic Poetry
		Accentual Poetry
		Questions For Meditation Or Discussion
		Quotes
		Poetry Practices
	3. Meter: A Language For The Body
		Prosody And History
		Scansion Marks
		The Four Most Common Metrical Patterns
		Meter, Rhythm, And The Metrical Foot
		Meter In Contemporary Poetry
		The Line In Free Verse And Metrical Poetry
		How To Scan A Poem
		A Note On Scansion And Subjectivity: The 80/20 Rule
		Why Bother?
		Questions For Meditation Or Discussion
		Quotes
		Poetry Practices
	4. The Many Voices Of Iambic Meter
		Blank Iambic Verse, Enjambment, And Caesura
		The Five Basic Metrical Variations In Iambic Pentameter
		Anapests As Variations
		Trochees As Variations
		Spondees And Pyrrhics As Variations
		Headless And Extra-Syllable Lines
		Expressive Variation And Keeping Your Balance
		Iambic Dimeter, Trimeter, Tetrameter, And Fourteeners
		Iambic Pentameter In The Twenty-First Century
		Questions For Meditation Or Discussion
		Quotes
		Poetry Practices
	5. The Metrical Palette: Beyond Iambic Pentameter
		Trochaic Meter
		Anapestic Meter
		Dactylic Meter
		Mixed Meters
		Amphibrachs, Dipodics, And Hendecasyllabics
		Meter And Meaning
		Questions For Meditation Or Discussion
		Quotes
		Poetry Practices
Part 2: Form
	6. Paradigms Of Rhyme
		Definitions
		Rhyme’s Roots
		Kinds Of Rhyme
		Rhyme And Emphasis
		Rhyme And Meaning
		Advice On Rhyming
		Questions For Meditation Or Discussion
		Quotes
		Poetry Practices
	7. Stanzas: A Poem's Breathing Rooms
		The Stanza In Free Verse And Shaped Poems
		Two- And Three-Line Stanzas
		Four-Line Stanzas
		Longer Stanzas
		The Dynamic Stanza
		Questions For Meditation Or Discussion
		Quotes
		Poetry Practices
	8. Worth Repeating: Forms Based On Repetition
		The Blues
		The Villanelle
		The Sestina And Canzone
		The Rondeau, Triolet, Kyrielle, And Tritina
		The Paradelle
		The Ghazal
		Pantoum
		Refrain In Free Verse And Form
		Questions For Meditation Or Discussion
		Quotes
		Poetry Practices
	9. Chaos In Fourteen Lines: The Sonnet
		The Italian And English Sonnet
		Writing Sonnets
		Sonnets And Sequences
		Reclaiming The Sonnet
		Variations And Deformations Of The Sonnet
		Questions For Meditation Or Discussion
		Quotes
		Poetry Practices
	10. Deep Story: The Ballad
		Questions For Meditation Or Discussion
		Quotes
		Poetry Practices
	11. Procedural Poetry
		Procedural And Nonce Poems
		Found And Genre Poems
		Questions For Meditation Or Discussion
		Quotes
		Poetry Practices
Afterword: Form And Inspiration
A Poet’s Bookshelf On Form: For Further Reading
Appendix: Scansions
Credits
Index