Programs and pages on poetic form and meter:

Click to download a DOS-based set of  instructional programs in poetic metrics (prosody).  A similar course is under construction on the UNCG Topclass Server (click here).  To use this course,  log into that site under the name "visitor" and with the password  "enter" [both without quotation marks]. After login, click "course work," and follow menus to the course (English 570) and test named "Metrics." Other materials there will be developed further or removed.

Click to select from instructional materials on this website:
A tutorial in poetic terminology
A table of poetic meters
A table and tutorial in stanzas and fixed forms
 

to other sites concerned with poetic prosody

Have you ever heard of Expansive Poetry?

How about L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poetry?

Do you think that there is such a thing as a free-verse poetic foot?

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--or later--Prosodic variants: syllabic, quantitative, free verse


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