Rhyme's reason

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Cover Contents Foreword to the Fourth Edition, by Preface to the Third Edition Introduction Schemes Verse Systems Accentual-Syllabic Verse The pentameter line and others Versification Monostitch Blank verse Fourteeners Rhyming Couplets Tercets Quatrains Other stanzaic forms Kinds of sonnet Accentual Meters Old English Sprung rhythm Skeltonics Pure Syllabic Verse Haiku Cinquain Free Verse Aberrant Forms Antiverse Pattern-poem Concrete poem Ode Forms Quantitative Verse Classical Meters and Their Adaptations Elegiacs Alcaics Hendecasyllabics Acrostics Echo verse Repetitive Structures Carol and refrain Villanelle Sestina Ballade Rondeau Triolet Pantoum Blues and thirtytwo bar standard song Comical Schemes Limerick Clerihew Double-dactyl Rhetorical Schemes Epic simile Zeugma Anacoluthon Apostrophe Anaphora Homoeoteleuton Chiasmus Variation and Mimesis Imitative form Representative versification More on Rhyming Anomalous rhyming Laisses Line indentation Blank-verse sonnet Uncommon Schemes Unequal couplet Pushkin's stanza Canzone Rondel and roundel Rondeau redouble Accentual hexameters Ad hoc rhythms Leonine Rhyme Rhopalics Tanca Pantun Ghazals Luc-bdt Appendix Patterns in Practice Afterword to the Fourth Edition, by Richard Wilbur Suggestions for Further Reading Index A B C D E F G H I M O P Q R S T V Z