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Poetry Forms - Poetry Resource Directory

• Poetry Meter Form
  This poetry site provides tutorials and quizzes in poetry that teach poetic meter and forms, the prosody and structure of verse and stanzas. ...
  http://www.uncg.edu/~htkirbys/intro.html

• The Prosody Anecdotes
  The Alberto Rios of Arizona State University has posted anecdotes and introductions to some of the canonical forms of European poetry. ...
  http://www.public.asu.edu/~aarios/formsofverse/anecdotes/

• The Spectra
  Our web site contain story of the Spectric school of poetry, a hoax perpetrated by Witter Bynner and Arthur Davison Ficke. ...
  http://www.sniggle.net/spectra.php

• The Sprung Rhythm in Hopkins
  The prung Rhythm is Gerard Manley Hopkins term for a complex and very technically involved system of metrics which he derived partly from his knowledge of Welsh poetry. It is opposed specifically to running or common rhythm, and provides for feet of ...
  http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/hopkins/hopkins13.html

• The Its What I Do
  This site provide a poetry, different styles of writing, art work. ...
  http://flipzoied.tripod.com/

• The Unusual Rhyming Poetry
  This site provide poetry for all of the family, Easy to find topics. ...
  http://members.chello.at/bernard.shaw/poetry.html

• Ode Form
  An ode is a poem that is written for an occasion or on a particular subject. They are usually dignified and more serious as a form than other forms of poetry. Unfortunatly, todays society has distinctly less respect for propriety, morality, and digni ...
  http://library.thinkquest.org/3721/poems/forms/ode.html

• The Lets Learn About Poetry
  A good though not extensive informal treatise on various forms and types of poetry. ...
  http://library.thinkquest.org/3721/poems/forms/learn.html

• The Interactive Quiz on Meter
  Its worth pointing out that what youre learning here is merely a bit of terminology or jargon and the ability to apply it accurately. Naming meters is not the same as being sensitive to effects of rhythm in poems. Good readers who can hear what the ...
  http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/tchg/quiz/meter/q2/quiz.html

• The Marc Moskowitzs Latin Poetry Page
  This page is meant to be a jumpingoff point for examples of modern aka 20th and 21st century Latin verse as well as information about such things as scansion, poetic style, and anything else that seems related. ...
  http://www.suberic.net/~marc/latinpoetry.html