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The Ode Less Travelled Unlocking the Poet Within Also by Stephen Fry FICTION The Liar The Hippopotamus Making History The Stars’ Tennis Balls NON-FICTION Paperweight Moab Is My Washpot Rescuing the Spectacled Bear with Hugh Laurie A Bit of Fry and Laurie A Bit More Fry and Laurie Three Bits of Fry and Laurie Stephen Fry The Ode Less Travelled Unlocking the Poet Within HUTCHINSON LONDON Published by Hutchinson in 2005 Copyright © Stephen Fry 2005 Stephen Fry has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988 to be identified as the author of this work This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser First published in 2005 in the United Kingdom by Hutchinson HUTCHINSON The Random House Group Limited 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SWIV 2SA Random House Australia (Pty) Limited 20 Alfred Street, Milsons Point, Sydney New South Wales 2061, Australia Random House New Zealand Limited 18 Poland Road, Glenfield Auckland 10, New Zealand Random House South Africa (Pty) Limited Isle of Houghton, Corner Boundary Road & Carse O’Gowrie, Houghton, 2198, South Africa The Random House Group Limited Reg. No. 954009 www.randomhouse.co.uk A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 1-4295-2143-0 The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD For Rory Stuart, a good, superior and great teacher. Table of Contents Foreword How to Read this Book. Three Golden Rules 1 Metre I How We Speak. Meet Metre. The Great Iamb. The Iambic Pentameter. Poetry Exercises 1 & 2 II End-stopping, Enjambment and Caesura. Poetry Exercise 3. Weak Endings, Trochaic and Pyrhhic Substitutions. Substitutions. Poetry Exercise 4 III More Metres: Four Beats to the Line. Mixed Feet. Poetry Exercise 5 IV Ternary Feet: The Dactyl, The Molossus and Tribrach, The Amphibrach, The Amphimacer, Quaternary Feet. Poetry Exercise 6 V Anglo-Saxon Attitudes. Poetry Exercise 7. Sprung Rhythm. VI Syllabic Verse. Poetry Exercises 8 & 9: Coleridge’s ‘Lesson for a Boy’. T M F ABLE OF ETRIC EET 2 Rhyme I The Basic Categories of Rhyme. Partial Rhymes. Feminine and Triple Rhymes. Rich Rhyme. II Rhyming Arrangements. III Good and Bad Rhyme? A Thought Experiment. Rhyming Practice and Rhyming Dictionaries. Poetry Exercise 10 R C HYME ATEGORIES 3 Form I The Stanza. What is Form and Why Bother with It? II Stanzaic Variations. Open Forms: Terza Rima, The Quatrain, The Rubai, Rhyme Royal, Ottava Rima, Spenserian Stanza. Adopting and Adapting. Poetry Exercise 11 III The Ballad. Poetry Exercise 12 IV Heroic Verse. Poetry Exercise 13 V The Ode: Sapphic, Pindaric, Horatian, The Lyric Ode, Anacreontics. VI Closed Forms: The Villanelle. Poetry Exercise 14. The Sestina. Poetry Exercise 15. The Pantoum, The Ballade. VII More Closed Forms: Rondeau, Rondeau Redoublé, Rondel, Roundel, Rondelet, Roundelay, Triolet, Kyrielle. Poetry Exercise 16 VIII Comic Verse: Cento, The Clerihew. The Limerick. Reflections on Comic and Impolite Verse. Light Verse. Parody. Poetry Exercise 17 IX Exotic Forms: Haiku, Senryu, Tanka. Ghazal. Luc Bat. Tanaga. Poetry Exercise 18

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