Questions About Rules For The Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse

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Is this significantly different from Oliver's "A Poetry Handbook"?

Chris I agree with Balaram. Rules of the Dance is a lesson in writing with rhythm and rhyme, even meter in non-metric verse. The last 80 pages are an anthol…moreI agree with Balaram. Rules of the Dance is a lesson in writing with rhythm and rhyme, even meter in non-metric verse. The last 80 pages are an anthology of the poems she used to teach in the first 107 pages.

Example: Mary teaches metrical patterns and their symbols (iamb, trochee, dactyl, and anapest (two light stresses followed by a heavy stress).(less)

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