Educational book about elements of poetry?

sunandshadow · 01-23-2013, 08:39 PM

My younger brother has been writing a lot of poems recently but his English classes didn't teach much about the different kinds of rhyme and alliteration, or the different meters and forms. Can anyone recommend a book which explains and gives example poems for each of these things?

Tristesse2 · 01-23-2013, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by sunandshadow

My younger brother has been writing a lot of poems recently but his English classes didn't teach much about the different kinds of rhyme and alliteration, or the different meters and forms. Can anyone recommend a book which explains and gives example poems for each of these things?

I can recommend The New Book of Forms by Turco and In Fine Form by Kate Braid and Sandy Shreve.

Good luck to your brother, it's great to hear of the younger generation interested in this neglected art.