Poetic Meter and Form

$7.95

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Imprint: Wooden Books
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Book Details

Pages

64 Pages

Size

5.5 x 6.75

Format

Trade Paperback

Pub. Date

07/01/2021

ISBN

978-1-952178-08-5

Publisher

Wooden Books

Authors

Octavia Wynne is a poet, musician, and songwriter. Originally from the Scottish Highlands, she now lives in the wilds of Essex, where she smokes cheese and keeps bees and geese.

Can you tell an iamb from a trochee? An anapest from an amphibrach? Why do children always take such delight in dactylic tetrameter? Is a ballad the same as a ballade, and what is poetic rhythm?

In this neat pocket book, Scottish poet Octavia Wynne examines the elements of poetry, from its various feet, meters and lines, through its patterns, stanzas and rhymes, right up to the poetic forms themselves, with ancient and modern examples from William Shakespeare to Dr. Seuss. 

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