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		Poetic Meter and Poetic Form by Paul Fussell
		The "Bible" of formal poetry; Turco defines over 300 different forms; in addition, the lengthy introduction is first-rate in dealing with meter, rhyme, and other technical issues.
		Excellent introduction to poetic form; Hollander illustrates each of the forms by writing a poem in that form which explains that form.
	www.everypoet.com /readinglist_meter.htm (203 words)

	Ode - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The poets of the Pleiad recognized in the ode one of the forms of verse with which French prosody should be enriched, but they went too far in their use of Greek words crudely introduced.
		Early in the 19th century the form was resumed, and we have the odes composed between 1817 and 1824 by Victor Hugo, the philosophical and religious odes of Lamartine, and the brilliant Odes funambulesques of Theodore de Banville (1857).
		The golden age of German ode, both of the Pindaric and the Horatian varieties, is associated with the late 18th century and such writers as Klopstock and Schiller, whose An die Freude (Ode to Joy) inspired the final movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ode (1082 words)

	A Disciplinary Map for Verse Study
		The study of verse form is relegated to the same status as the study of fictional "style." In this view, poetic expression has nothing comparable to the elaborately articulated elements of plot, character, and setting in prose fiction.
		Poetic communication, I would maintain, is both multidimensional and a frequent success, not one-dimensional and a necessary failure; and while formal in source, the human implications of this communication are highly discussable and therefore lay a firm foundation for a poetic hermeneutics (and one that is sharply distinct from a hermeneutics of, say, prose fiction).
		If the basic form of our inward sensibility is time, if time is created by the components of rhythm and their interactions, and if language is a fractal elaboration of these inner forms, then we might expect that the basis of this fractal elaboration of linguistic form is rhythmic.
	depts.washington.edu /versif/backissues/vol1/essays/cureton.html (7791 words)

	Rule 10
		Poetic lines that begin at the left print margin of the poem must begin in cell 1.
		(a) To indicate the division of a single poetic line shown in print, either between the lines of a stanza or between stanzas, insert a double dash (preceded by a blank cell) at the end of the incomplete line.
		Scansion is a system for describing poetic rhythms by dividing the lines into feet and indicating the locations of accents.
	www.brl.org /formats/rule10.html (1811 words)

	Poetic_Form.page
		is, loosely, the poetic equivalent of the prose sentence.
		A light or humorous verse form of five chiefly anapestic verses of which lines one, two and five are of three feet and lines three and four are of two feet, with a rhyme scheme of aabba.
		In a poetic sense, however, rhyme refers to a close similarity of sound as well as an exact correspondence; it includes the agreement of vowel sounds in assonance and the repetition of consonant sounds in consonance and alliteration.
	www.geocities.com /aka_poe/Poetic_Form.html (2239 words)

	Documentation of a Collection of Sonnets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The sonnet is one of the most popular and elegant of poetic forms handed down to us from the past, and yet it is often passed off as a basic and simplistic form.
		The sonnet, as a form, was used to convey love, argue rhetoric and meditate on the state of man and nature.
		The goals of this paper are, therefore, to inform the reader of the sonnet's history and construction, and to uncover the intricacies and delicacies that have made the sonnet one of the best loved poetic forms of the last 500 years, and finally, to demonstrate what a sonnet should and should not be.
	bard.ansteorra.org /research/SonnetPaper2_3.html (4813 words)

	Poetic Form (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Italian form is distinguished by its division into the octave and the sestet: the octave consisting of eight lines rhyming abbaabba, and the sestet consisting of six lines rhyming cde, cde, or cdedce.
		The couplet at the end is often a commentary on the preceding quatrains, and the epigrammatic close.
		Perhaps the essential distinction of form is the division into strophes: the strophe, antistrophe, and epode.
	cal.jmu.edu /aleysb/poetic.htm (955 words)

	PoeticMeter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Poetic meter is not rocket science or brain surgery; it's not even completing your income tax form by yourself.
		This is an example of a whole poetic form, and a very rigid one at that.
		When one neglects this rule, as Henry Adams Bellows does in his translation of the Poetic Edda, the result is to move the emphasis to the end of the line like in standard metrical verse, and to allow anapestic rythms to take over to the detriment of the dignity and subtltry of the language.
	meadhall.homestead.com /PoeticMeter.html (2986 words)

	Temporal Theory of Poetic Syntax
		This temporal theory of poetic syntax is a part a new temporal poetics (Cureton 1992, 1996, 1997a, 1997b, 1997c, 1997d) that includes other aspects of poetic language as well--visual form, meter and rhythm, versification, sound, intonation, trope, archetypal imagery, etc.
		If similar syntactic forms are limited to certain parts of a text, they help define that part of the text; and if related meanings occur in similar syntactic forms, they are implicitly held up for comparison and contrast.
		Given this, it seems reasonable to suggest that linguistic forms have some coherent organization, that they derive from some distinct world/field/ universe of structured relationships that can give each individual form an articulate significance when these forms are used in concert to achieve their larger lyric purposes.
	www2.bc.edu /~richarad/lcb/wip/rc2.html (2061 words)

	LevertovPresence
		Denise Levertov's approach to poetic form is often grouped with the "open field" or projectivist poetics of the Black Mountain School surrounding Charles Olson and Robert Creeley.
		Creeley famously said, "Form is never more than an extension of content." Olson propounded a form of poetic "objectivism," by which he meant a poetics that focused not on a poet's subjective state or ego but on the energy that the poem offers by an encounter with the objects of the world.
		Levertov's own poetic theory can be found in an essay, "Some Notes on Organic Form." She proposes that the poem's form arises naturally from the poet's discovery of an object, idea, or experience's natural shape.
	www.dbu.edu /mitchell/levertov.htm (557 words)

	handout on versification
		Anaphora is a particular form of parallelism, in which the repeated part of speech is in the initial position of the line.
		You might see these as rigid, constricting forms from which Whitman had to "free" himself and other writers, but you can also think of them as formal challenges- and as a way of entering into dialogue with everyone who has written before in that form.
		The rhymed tetrameter quatrain is perhaps the most basic stanza form in the language, with any number of rhyme patterns: abab, abba, and xaxa (where x=an unrhymed line) are the most common.
	ic.ucsc.edu /~ksgruesz/ltam104a/poetry.htm (2338 words)

	Haiku (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		She continued: The great difference is that with the novel it is often the best professional writers who have chosen to invest their creative energies in that particular genre, and with haiku it is occasionally more often ordinary individuals, writers and teachers worldwide who are drawn to it.
		Developed as the early imperial court of the late eighth century consolidated cultural, social and political forms, the waka took its place as one of the important regularized poetic forms of the period.
		As many as four people took part in composing such poetry in what developed as a serious poetic form, with many complicated rules to ensure that the elegant court-poetry diction and aesthetic ideals were maintained.
	asnic.utexas.edu /asnic/countries/japan/haiku.html (715 words)

	Curran, Stuart. Poetic Form and British Romanticism. New York : Oxford University Press, 1986. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Stuart Curran's work in “Poetic Form and British Romanticism” is said to be the standard work on the subject of poetic form and British romanticism.
		According to Curran, the form of the poem, so immediate and dramatic, is justified on the sensible grounds that a crisis worthy of the name cannot be resolved in a short poem and retain its claim to authenticity.
		According to Curran, such self-fashioning, which is evident throughout the early odes, continues unchanged but for intensification in the prose where the specter of self-paralysis has at least as much to do with the poet’s recreation of his literary heritage as with his reading in abstruse philosophy (Curran 73).
	www.angelfire.com /poetry/keats0/curran.html (324 words)

	form
		To talk about form in a poem is to discuss the pattern or design of the poem as a whole.
		It would be wrong to assume, however, that open form poems do not follow a pattern at all because if you look at Walt Whitman's "When I Heard the learn'd Astronomer" or "A Noiseless Patient Spider" ¡X both open form poems¡Xyou can see that Whitman creates his own patterns in these poems.
		Form: the pattern of free verse depends a lot on repetition (with variation) of different poetic elements.
	www.eng.fju.edu.tw /English_Literature/terms/form.htm (1307 words)

	Poetry Daily Prose Feature: David Caplan, Introduction to Questions of Possibility: Contemporary Poetry and Poetic Form (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Exploiting this situation, contemporary poets claim forms by using techniques thought to be in conflict, creating, as Simeon Bruner wrote of the MASS MoCA, "a single new piece that is both old and new at the same time." The results mystify readers wedded to anachronistic notions of literary influence.
		Instead of assigning stable values to poetic forms, we need the patience to trace the forms' shifting movements, as their political and their aesthetic uses accommodate new imperatives and contexts.
		Because verse form is essentially senseless — an iamb, for instance, merely defines an abstract pattern — it stays open to multifold meanings, to new uses and unexpected inflections.
	www.poems.com /essacapl.htm (5404 words)

	poeticform
		The chopped tomato in the salad is a well-known form, while the chopped tomato on top of the cooked greens is rarer and more of an invention.
		The next form I dreamed up was clearly inspired by "Four Plus One K," as it consists of three lines followed by a single word, only this time in an alphabetical progression, rather than repeating the same initial letter.
		But when I confine myself to a form, many worries and responsibilities fall by the wayside; burdens are lifted and imagination is liberated.
	home.pipeline.com /~tarmac/essays/poeticform.htm (1398 words)

	Three Views of Poetic Form. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Extremists, whether formalists of the New Criticism or of the humanist-moralist tradition, are taken to task in this attempt to combine elements of both in a more pluralistic approach to literary criticism.
		An analysis of a Frost poem, "Stopping by Woods", is attempted as an illustration of a kind of criticism that seeks to clarify the parts of the poem, to discover the governing principle, and to identify the shaping principle which leads the writer to be concerned with its form.
		Concluding remarks point out the need to consider the artist as a "maker" and a "shaper", and thus to regard analysis of form as a means of arriving at the literary appreciation which the humanist critics propose.
	www.eric.ed.gov /sitemap/html_0900000b800c9190.html (118 words)

	Analyse and comment on the poetic form and language used in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats.
		Analyse and comment on the poetic form and language used in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats.
		Coursework and Essays: By Subject: Literature: Analyse and comment on the poetic form and language used in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats
		Below is a short sample of the essay "Analyse and comment on the poetic form and language used in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats.".
	www.coursework.info /i/64745.html (534 words)

	deviantART: poetic-forms
		The form of the month challenge for remainder of January is the French form, the bref double.
		Form challenges will consist of you being assigned a form each month, and writing on any topic, in that form.
		I love the structure of some of the more unusual forms of poetry and would love to be a part of this.
	poetic-forms.deviantart.com (1162 words)

	Robert Kaufman, On Susan Wolfson's _Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism_ - Romantic Circles ...
		Canonical form itself is foregrounded—most palpably in the very form of attention to the Big Six, with all their influence on modern notions of poetic form's privileged status—while, in an opposite movement, the more celebrated texts and passages of those poets generally give way to noncanonical writings.
		This entails the making of forms whose fictionality the audience is simultaneously inclined to notice and suspend notice of, forms the audience is specially inclined to treat—in the language of similitude—as if those forms were not artificed or made for and as fictions (but all the while knowing that they are).
		It is to Romantic notions of organic form, aesthetic autonomy, unity, and aura that Marx consciously turns, at every crucial stage of his career, to convey the "critical" nature of his thinking about theory and practice (always animated, Marx takes pains to signal, by his internalization of high aesthetic theory).
	www.rc.umd.edu /reviews/back/wolfson.html (4021 words)

	325 Poetic Form Essay Assignment
		The thesis should focus on some aspect of the poet’s art: how he or she uses and adapts the form, how he or she arranges language to affect the reader, what particular figurative language he or she creates and sustains — something along those lines.
		You should assume your readers have a college-level vocabulary (thus you do not have to define words, unless the meaning the poet intends is not the usual one) and have a copy of the poem that they have read a few times, but need help to understand it.
		His poetic masterpiece grew out of the collapse of his marriage to Mary Ellen Nicolls, daughter of Thomas Love Peacock, the brilliant dialogue novelist (a novel written like a play but never intended to be staged) and friend of Shelley.
	classweb.gmu.edu /rnanian/325poeticform.html (1846 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Poetic Form: Cinquain
		Love built a stately house, where Fortune came, And spinning fancies, she was heard to say That her fine cobwebs did support the frame, Whereas they were supported by the same; But Wisdom quickly swept them all away.
		Adelaide Crapsey, an early twentieth-century poet, used a form of 22 syllables distributed among the five lines in a 2, 4, 6, 8, and 2 pattern, respectively.
		Her poems share a similarity with the Japanese tanka, another five-line form, in their focus on imagery and the natural world.
	www.poets.org /viewmedia.php/prmMID/5775 (240 words)

	MELUS: Maganda: thoughts on poetic form (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As a poetic process, I sometimes likened Maganda to Athena in Greek and Roman mythology because both were born fully formed.
		Speaking of enlightenment, an unexpected side-result is that as I continued to write the dictionary-based poems, I came to extend my investigations of the prose poem, a form whose long lines I originally found compatible with my ability to hold my breath for long periods.
		The WM poems allowed me to explore the effect of breath on poetic lines through my use of the period as like a line-break to note the pause required by inhalation, and not just to end a sentence.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2278/is_1_29/ai_n6148071 (1284 words)

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