The poem's heartbeat : a manual of prosody

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Label

The poem's heartbeat : a manual of prosody

Title remainder

a manual of prosody

Statement of responsibility

Alfred Corn

Creator

• Corn, Alfred, 1943-
• Corn, Alfred, 1943-

Subject

• English language -- Rhythm
• English language -- Versification
• Poetics

Language

eng

Summary

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 pentameter. By the enf of this book, the author has taught the novice to become artist and magician. This book also includes a selected bibliography and encourages readers and students to carry their investigations further. The word line comes from the Latin linea, itself derived from the word for a thread of linen. We can look at the lines of poetry as slender compositional units forming a weave like that of a textile. Indeed, the word text has the same origin as the word textile. It isn t difficult to compare the compositional process to weaving, where thread moves from left to right, reaches the margin of the text, then shuttles back to begin the next unit

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

808.1

Index

index present

LC call number

PE1505

LC item number

.C67 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography