Tinker Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Explore the Craft of Writing PoetryEnglish Verse The English speaker is blessed with a rich and varied history of English poetic writing that dates back to the Anglo Saxons who produced the legendary Beowulf. Moving forward to Middle English, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the anonymous, morality play Everyman set high standards. The Renaissance produced poetry by Wyatt, Johnson, Spenser, Donne, Shakespeare, and so many more, poetry that is still quoted, recited and revered. And the list goes on, Tennyson, Browning, Kipling, Hardy, Larkin, Hughes..... If I left off your favorite, forgive me, these were names that just came off the top of my head in a few seconds of typing. In My Craft Or Sullen Art by Dylan Thomas In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs in their arms I labour by singing light Not for ambition or bread Or the strut and trade of charms On the ivory stages But for the common wages Of their most secret heart. Not for the proud man apart From the raging moon I write On these spindrift pages Nor for the towering dead With their nightingales and psalms But for the lovers, their arms Round the griefs of the ages, Who pay no praise or wages Nor heed my craft or art. I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud by William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced, but they Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee; A poet could not be but gay, In such a jocund company! I gazed—and gazed—but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. English Stanzaic and Verse Forms (includes Anglo Saxon and Cornish verse) a la Bartholomew Griffin ABBA Abercrombie Abstract Poetry Anglo Saxon, Accentual Verse or Alliterative Verse Arnold Beymorilin Sonnet Bina Binyon Blunden Boast Bob and Wheel Bowlesian Sonnet Brace Octave Brag Bridges Cameo Carol Texte or Burden Carol Stanza Chaucer's Rime or Stanza Christabel Meter Clerihew Common Measure Common Octave Cornish Sonnet Irregular or Cowleyan Ode Crambo Curtal Long Hymnal Stanza Curtal Sonnet Decrina de la Mare de Tabley Deten Dipodic Quatrain Dixon Dobson Donne Double Ballad Stanza Dowson Dryden Roundelay English Heroic Line English Madrigal English Ode English Quintet English Roundelay English Sonnet Fletcher Fourteener Fourteener Couplet Fourteenth Century Stanza Gilbert Heroic Couplet Heroic Octave Heroic Rispetto Herrick Hexaduad Inverted Hexaduad Hymnal Measure Hymnal Octave In Memoriam Stanza Irregular Ode Keastian Ode Kipling Little Willie Long hymnal Measure Long Hymnal Octave Long Measure Long Measure Octave Madsong Stanza Mc Whirtle Miltronic Sonnet Noyes Omar stanza O'Shaughnessy Pensee Phillimore Poulter's Measure Quaternion Reverse English Sonnet Rhymed Double Sestina Roundel Roundelay Russell Rhyme Royal Scupham Sonnet Sept Shakespearean Sonnet Shantey Short hymnal Short English Madrigal Short Measure Short octave Short particular measure Short Rondel Sidney's Double Sestina Skeltonics Spenserian Sonnet Spenserian Stanza Stephens Stevenson Swinburne Swinburne's Double Sestina Swinburne's Rhymed Sestina Tennyson Thorley Trench Triplet Tudoric Lyric Tumbling verse Underground Poetry Unrhymed Sonnet Uranian Movement Venus and Adonis Stanza Victorian Movement War Poets Wheel Wordsworth Sonnet Wyatt/Surrey Sonnet Yeats Octave ZaniLa Rhyme ~~ © ~~ Poems by Judi Van Gorder ~~ For permission to use this work you can write to Tinker1111@icloud.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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