Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters

by Annie Finch

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This comprehensive and joyous celebration of metered verse brings together some of the best rhythmic lines in literature. After a century dominated by free verse, there is a new excitement about rediscovering poetry's ancient musical and performative roots. Iambic pentameter is the most familiar meter for most readers, but it only scratches the surface of the extraordinary diversity of rhythmic patterns that poets have employed over the ages. That...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0375712488

ISBN13:9780375712487

Release Date:March 2015

Publisher:Everyman's Library

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.55 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 4.3" x 6.4"

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