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FORM OF POETRY Section 001 / Fall 2004 / Susan Tichy / Tuesday 7:20-10:00 / Thompson Hall 106 FORM & GENRE LISTS, page 4 Heroic or Alternating Quatrains (iambic pentameter abab / Short Quatrains (iambic tetramter) See List 1 Rubaiyat Quatrain / Envelope Quatrain (abba) / Couplet Quatrain (aabb) / Other Quatrains HEROIC or ALTERNATING QUATRAINS (Iambic Pentameter, abab) Gray (18th c): Elegy written in a country churchyard 609 Blake: The Little Black Boy 673 Wordsworth: Elegiac Stanzas 734 Emerson: Brahma 855 Bronte: Remembrance 946, The Prisoner 947 Rossetti: Up-Hill 1028 Robinson: Richard Cory 1106 Yeats: Adam's Curse MODERN 100 Frost: The Most of It 1138 Crane: The Broken Tower 1308 Jarrell: A Sick Child 1448 Causley: Eden Rock 1484 Davie: Remembering the Thirties 1534 Leithauser (20th c): Old Bachelor Brother 1868
RUBAIYAT QUATRAIN: Fitzgerald: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 866
ENVELOPE QUATRAINS: (abba) Herbert: Death 346 Hopkins: My own heart 1066 Yeats: When you are old 1085 Owen: Exposure MODERN 534 Toomer: Georgia Dusk 1289 Eberhart: Fury of Aerial Bombardment 1343 Douglas: Gallantry 1515
COUPLET QUATRAINS: (aabb) Lawrence: Piano 1177 or MODERN 329 Cummings: anyone lived in a pretty how town 1286, my father moved through dooms of love 1287 Graves: Love without Hope 1290
Hardy: The Voice 1056, The Self-Unseeing MODERN
49 (trimeter) Frost: Desert Places MODERN 220 Pound: Hugh Selwyn Mauberly 1191 (various kinds of couplets) or MODERN 354 Bogan: Medusa 1298, Man Alone 1299, Roman Fountain
1300 Ransom: Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter MODERN
456 Owen: Apolgia pro Poemate Meo MODERN
525, Miners 526 Bogan: Medusa MODERN 587, Women 588 Jackson: The Wind Suffers 1316 Smith: Mr. Over 1331, Pretty 1334 Wilbur: Piazza di Spagna 1528 (alternating, irreg. line lengths),
A Baroque Wall Fountain 1529 (envelope, irreg line lengths), Advice to
a Prophet 1531 (envelope, irreg line lengths) Hecht: More Light! More Light! 1562 (iambic pentameter, xaxa),
Ghost in the Martini 1563 (alternating rhyme, trimeter & pentameter
lines) Justice: Men at Forty 1582 Creeley: A Wicker Basket CONTEMP
327 AND MANY, MANY MORE Back to the Top / Back to Form & Genre Index
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