Rules for the dance a handbook for writing and reading metrical verse /
| Main Author: | Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Boston :
Houghton Mifflin,
1998.
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| Physical Description: |
x, 194 pages ; 21 cm. |
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Publisher description Table of contents Contributor biographical information |
| Item Description: |
"A Mariner original." Includes index. pt. 1. The rules. Breath -- Patterns -- More about patterns -- Design : line length -- Release of energy along the line -- Design : rhyme -- Design : traditional forms -- Words on a string -- Mutes and other sounds -- The use of meter in non-metric verse -- Ohs and the ahs -- Image-making -- pt. 2. The dancers one by one. Style -- pt. 3. Scansion, and the actual work. Scansion : reading the metrical poem -- Scansion : writing the metrical poem -- Yourself dancing : the actual work -- pt. 4. A universal music. Then and now -- pt. 5. An anthology of metrical poems. |
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| Physical Description: |
x, 194 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: |
039585086X 9780395850862 |