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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 6

Stanza Forms

Tercets & Triplets  /  Terza Rima  /  Quintets  /  Sestets  /  Septets  /  Octaves  /  9-Line Stanzas  /  

10-Line Stanzas  /  Rime Royal  /  Sestina  /  Villanelle  /  Pantoum  /  Other Stanzas
 



this page is complete through the modern anthology; does not yet include the contemporary

Tercets & Triplets:

Herrick: Upon Julia's Clothes 323
Herbert: Virtue 337
Hardy: Convergence of the Twain 1053
Frost: Provide Provide 1136
Stevens: Tea at the Palaz of Hoon
MODERN 247, A Postcard from the Volcano 250, The Snow Man, Rabbit as King of the Ghosts, Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction, etc.
Jacobsen: Hourglass 1384
MacCaig: Fetching Cows 1402
MacKay Brown: Haddock Fishermen 1521
Larkin: Talking in Bed 1546, Sad Steps 1548, The Explosion 1548

Terza Rima:

Shelley: Ode to the West Wind 801
Frost: Acquainted with the Night 1132
Wilbur: First Snow in Alsace 1527

Quintets:

Anon. (15th c): Fine Knacks for Ladies 105
Wyatt: Is It Possible 118
Herbert: The Windows 335, Denial 335
Shelley: To a Skylark 805
Yeats: Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop 1099
Gurney: To His Love
MODERN 496
MacCaig: Solitary Crow 1403
Graves: The Blue-Fly
MODERN 568
Jarrell: Eighth Air Force 1446
D. Thomas: The Force that Drives the Green Fuse 1460
Lewis: Song 1467
Judith Wright: Woman to Man 1470

Sestets:

Ralegh: The Lie 142
Herbert: Man 337, Life 339, Love (III) 346
Bradstreet: The Prologue 417
Burns (Burns Stanza): To a Mouse 684, Holy Willy's Prayer 685
Byron: She Walks in Beauty 767
E. Barrett Browning: A Musical Instrument 859
R. Browning: Child Harold to the Dark Tower Came 928

Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole 1087
Muir: Return of the Greeks 1227

Blunden: Midnight Skaters 1298
Owen: Greater Love
MODERN 531
Berryman: from The Dream Songs 1441
Jarrell: Next Day 1448
Reed: Naming of Parts 1457
D. Thomas: The Hunchback in the Park 1462, Refusal to Mourn 1463
Lowell: Skunk Hour 1494


Septets:

Herbert: Vanity (I) 336
Shelley: Mutability 819
Hardy: During Wind and Rainb 1057
Owen: Futility 1280 or MODERN 529

Octaves:

Gascoigne: Gascoigne's Lullaby 133
Carroll: The White Knight's Song 1034
Hardy: A Broken Appointment 1051, The Darkling Thrush 1052
Yeats: A Prayer for My Daughter 1092, Byzantium 1097, Song of the Wandering Aengus
MODERN 98
Robinson: Mr. Flood's Party 1110
Berryman: Homage to Mistress Bradstreet 1440
Jarrell: A Field Hospital 1447
Larkin: MCMXIV 1546
Hugo: The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir 1570

Ottava Rima:

Lanyer: from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum 255 (a challenge to the doctirne of Eve's original sin)
Byron: from Don Juan 769
Yeats: Sailing to Byzantiym 1094, Among School Children 1096, Circus Animals' Disertion 1101

9-Line Stanzas:

Spenser (Spenserian stanza): The Faery Queen 152
Shelley: Stanzas Written in Dejection 799
Shelley: Adonais (Spenserian) 807
Keats: Eve of St. Agnes
(Spenserian) 833
Mew: The Farmer's Bride 1112
Stevens: To the One of Fictive Music 1154
Owen: Mental Cases
MODERN 532
Larkin: Church Going 1541

10-Line Stanzas:

Auden: Lullaby 1364
Larkin: The Whitsun Weddings 1544

Rime Royal:

Wyatt: They Flee From Me 115
Wordsworth: Resolution and Independence 723
Empson: Missing Dates 1359

Sestina:

Sidney: Ye Goatherd Gods 188
Bishop: Sestina 1412

Villanelle:

Roethke: The Waking 1391
Bishop: One Art 1419

Pantoum: