The Grammar of Poetry - Student Text

A superb course for understanding and practicing classical techniques of poetry, this book systematically explores such devices as simile and metaphor, rhyme and refrain, trochee and synecdoche. Students are able to comprehend and learn to apply iambic pentameter, anapest, and dactyl. Each lesson presents classical examples of each technique, exercises for understanding, and assignments for practice through imitation.

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