Rhyme's reason

Cover
Contents
Foreword to the Fourth Edition, by
Preface to the Third Edition
Introduction
Schemes
Verse Systems
Accentual-Syllabic Verse
	The pentameter line and others
Versification
	Monostitch
	Blank verse
	Fourteeners
	Rhyming
	Couplets
	Tercets
	Quatrains
	Other stanzaic forms
	Kinds of sonnet
Accentual Meters
	Old English
	Sprung rhythm
	Skeltonics
Pure Syllabic Verse
	Haiku
	Cinquain
Free Verse
Aberrant Forms
	Antiverse
	Pattern-poem
	Concrete poem
Ode Forms
Quantitative Verse
Classical Meters and Their Adaptations
	Elegiacs
	Alcaics
	Hendecasyllabics
	Acrostics
	Echo verse
Repetitive Structures
	Carol and refrain
	Villanelle
	Sestina
	Ballade
	Rondeau
	Triolet
	Pantoum
	Blues and thirtytwo bar standard song
Comical Schemes
	Limerick
	Clerihew
	Double-dactyl
Rhetorical Schemes
	Epic simile
	Zeugma
	Anacoluthon
	Apostrophe
	Anaphora
	Homoeoteleuton
	Chiasmus
Variation and Mimesis
	Imitative form
	Representative versification
More on Rhyming
	Anomalous rhyming
	Laisses
	Line indentation
	Blank-verse sonnet
Uncommon Schemes
	Unequal couplet
	Pushkin\'s stanza
	Canzone
	Rondel and roundel
	Rondeau redouble
	Accentual hexameters
	Ad hoc rhythms
	Leonine Rhyme
	Rhopalics
	Tanca
	Pantun
	Ghazals
	Luc-bdt
Appendix
Patterns in Practice
Afterword to the Fourth Edition, by Richard Wilbur
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
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