Guide to verse forms

[mdlbear]

From patoadam, we get a link to this Guide to Verse Forms by Bob Newman. It's remarkable both in its completeness and the fact that Bob wrote all the examples himself to avoid copyright problems.

Comments

[patoadam]

In addition to the Wenceslas poem, another one of my favorites there is "The Fire Brigade", in the style of Robert Burns. I suspect he chose fire as the subject of that poem because fire burns.

[mdlbear]

I suspect you're right.