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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| Online Access: |
Publisher description Table of contents Contributor biographical information |
Table of Contents:
- 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.