Throughout the following pages “verse” stands for any kind of metricalcomposition as distinguished from prose. It is not used as a synonym for“poetry.” Though most poetry is in verse form, most verse is not poetry.The ability to write verse can be acquired; only a poet can writepoetry. At the same time, even a poet must learn to handle his versewith some degree of skill or his work is apt to fall very flat, and themere verse writer who cannot rhyme correctly and fit his lines togetherin meter had much better stick to prose.
This book has been compiled with one end in view: to arrange in aconvenient and inexpensive form the fundamentals of verse—enough forthe student who[Pg 6] takes up verse as a literary exercise or for the olderverse writer who has fallen into a rut or who is a bit shaky on theory.It is even hoped that there may be a word of help for some embryo poet.
In construction the plan has been to suggest rather than to explain indetail and as far as possible to help the reader to help himself. Noverse has been quoted except where the illustration of a point made itnecessary. With the increasing number of libraries it ought to be aneasy matter for any one to refer to most of the lesser verse writers aswell as all the standard poets.
| CHAPTER I | ||
| Verse Making in General | 9 | |
| CHAPTER II | ||
| Meter | 17 | |
| CHAPTER III | ||
| Rhyme | 25 | |
| CHAPTER IV | ||
| Stanza Forms | 31 | |
| CHAPTER V | ||
| Subtleties of Versification | 37 | |
| CHAPTER VI | ||
| The Quatrain and Sonnet | 45 | |
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