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Article: Poetic Designs: An Introduction to Meters, Verse Forms, and Figures of Speech.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 1999
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Poetic Designs: An Introduction to Meters, Verse Forms, and Figures of Speech. By STEPHEN ADAMS. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press. 1997. xiii + 237 pp.
In fact this excellent little volume is divided into five parts (not three) with the sections on metre and verse form sub-divided into two chapters each. A context for the exposition that follows is established at once in a lucid general discussion of prosody and its importance, including an introduction to different metrical systems as well as their histories. Nor is the meaning of metre omitted. Major emphasis is placed on accentual-syllabic metrics, giving priority to the iambic pentameter as model unit and all ...
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