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But finger exercise must precede mastery of the keyboard. Following a model is at best finger exercise. Moreover, it provides models for the most intricate forms of poetry and versification that English-speaking poets use.

The introductory study of versification is so complete, that the book will answer almost every question on technique that any wouldbe poet or versifier desires to have answered. The arrangement of rhyming sounds in the present volume is wholly phonetic. The logically arranged rhyming dictionary must be arranged scientifically by sound arranged phonetically, to use the scientific word. Rhyme is exclusively a matter of sound: what the scientists call phonetics. When the versifier's problem is narrowed down to rhyme, the need for a convenient and logically arranged rhyming dictionary soon becomes self-evident. An adequate craftbook on versification is a necessity, when the urge becomes unconquerable. Almost everyone, at some stage of his or her life, has yielded to the seductive siren, and has done his or her best to write poetry. The achievement of this desire may be gained by anyone, without excessive effort.

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How the Helpmate of Bluebeard Made Free with a DoorĪ Pitcher of Mignonette Behold the Deeds!įOREWORD The desire to write poetry, or at least acceptable verse, is almost universal. The Death of the Hired Man The Black Cottage 'Out, Out-' Poem Source Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing ISBN: 5-7 Reprinted by arrangement with Doubleday Printed in the United States of America Published simultaneously in Canada April 1992 25 24 23 OPMĪCKNOWLEDGMENTS Acknowledgment is gratefully made to the following publishers and poets for the portions of their work used as illustrations herein: Publisher Boni & Liveright

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