poetry-form

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Poetic forms, techniques, and analysis for reading and writing poetry. Covers fixed forms (sonnet, villanelle, haiku, ghazal, sestina, pantoum), free verse and open form, prosody and meter (iambic pentameter, trochee, anapest, dactylic, spondee, scansion), sound devices (alliteration, assonance, consonance, rhyme schemes, enjambment, caesura), figurative language (metaphor, simile, metonymy, synecdoche, personification, apostrophe), imagery and the image (concrete image, objective correlative, imagism), and the line as unit of meaning (lineation, line break, visual form). Use when writing poetry, analyzing poems, or working with compression and sound.