The Prosody Handbook: A Guide to Poetic Form

by Robert Beum and Karl Shapiro

Written by two major American poets, this guide to versification is immensely useful for anyone interested in poetry or in general poetic structure. Its systematic study of meter, tempo, rhyme, and other components of verse incorporates countless vivid illustrative examples.
Concise and informal, The Prosody Handbook progresses from the smaller elements to the larger: from syllables to feet to lines to stanzas, and from smaller stanzas to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 048644967X
• ISBN13: 9780486449678
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"