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| How to read this book. Three golden rules | ||
| 1 | Metre | |
| I | How we speak : meet metre : the great lamb : the lambic pentameter | 1 |
| II | End-stopping, enjambment and caesura | 21 |
| III | More metres : four beats to the line : mixed feet | 55 |
| IV | Ternary feet : the dactyl, the molossus and tribrach, the amphibrach, the amphimacer, quaternary feet | 77 |
| V | Anglo-Saxon attitudes | 97 |
| VI | Syllabic verse | 113 |
| Table of metric feet | 120 | |
| 2 | Rhyme | |
| I | The basic categories of rhyme : partial rhymes, feminine and triple rhymes; rich rhyme | 123 |
| II | Rhyming arrangements | 143 |
| III | Good and bad rhyme? : a thought experiment : rhyming practice and rhyming dictionaries | 147 |
| Rhyme categories | 168 | |
| 3 | Form | |
| I | The stanza : what is form and why bother with it? | 171 |
| II | Stanzaic variations : open forms : Terza Rima, the quatrain, the rubai, rhyme royal, Ottava rima, Spenserian stanza : adopting and adapting | 179 |
| III | The ballad | 191 |
| IV | Heroic verse | 202 |
| V | The ode : sapphic, pindaric, horatian, the lyric ode, anacreontics | 209 |
| VI | Closed forms : the villanelle | 221 |
| VII | More closed forms : Rondeau, Rondeau Redouble, Rondel, Roundel, Rondelet, Roundelay, Triolet, Kyrielle | 247 |
| VIII | Comic verse : cento, the clerihew : the limerick : reflections on comic and impolite verse : light verse : parody | 261 |
| IX | Exotic forms : Haiku, Senryu, Tanka. Ghazal : Luc bat : Tanaga | 274 |
| X | The sonnet : Petrarchan and Shakespearean : curtal and caudate sonnets : sonnet variations and romantic duels | 281 |
| XI | Shaped verse : pattern poems : silly, silly forms : acrostics | 293 |
| 4 | Diction and poetics today | |
| I | The whale : the cat and the act : madeline : diction : being alert to language | 307 |
| II | Poetic vices : ten habits of successful poets that they don't teach you at Harvard Poetry School, or chicken verse for the soul is from Mars but you are what you read in just seven days or your money back : getting noticed : poetry today : goodbye | 320 |
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LENELL FREEMAN
reviewed The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within on April 17, 2018
The Ode Less Travelled
I'm a compulsive book finisher. I almost always read a book to the end, no matter how little I'm enjoying it. There have been three exceptions to this 'rule' (character trait?) in my life and this book is one of them.
I bought it for my wife as a Christmas present back in 2005, poetry being her thang. As it was sitting around the house, I started reading it too. I didn't get far. I don't know why I didn't finish it. It may have been down to not having the time to do the exercises contained within it but not wanting to just skip over them.
Anyway, thirteen years later, I have finally got around to finishing this book and, I have to say, I enjoyed reading it. Mr. Fry speaks eloquently, informatively and entertainingly on the subject of writing poetry.
Doing the exercises, however, has been a small slice of Hell. Seriously, it was like having homework again; not what I wanted in my life as a 42-year-old long out of formal edumacation!
Actually, part of me did kind of enjoy doing the exercises... the masochistic, self-loathing part of me. If this book has taught me anything, it's that I am definitely NOT a poet. :-)
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