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This inspiring book teaches students how to recognize, interpret, and mimic patterns through poetic form and meter. Students are shown how basic patterns can take shape in haiku and limericks through rhyme and form. They will learn to interpret the meter of poetry through understanding stressed and unstressed syllables and poetic feet. Includes several annotated sonnet excerpts from Shakespeare and a concise glossary of relevant literary terms.
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This guide to rhyme, rhythm, meter, and form sparks intuitive and technical lightning-flashes for poets and readers curious to know a poem s inner workings. Clear, good-humored, and deeply readable, this is the modern classic on prosody, the art and science of poetic meter. Each of the book's ten chapters is a progressive, step-by-step presentation rich with examples to illustrate concepts such as line, stress, scansion marks, slant rhyme, and iambic...
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Presents timeless treasures from the world of poetry, including classics by William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Langston Hughes and William Carlos Williams. Let the rhymes and rhythms transport you and encourage your child to develop a lifelong love of the music of words.
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