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The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry is an informative, candid volume on poetic forms and structures. Ode feels geared towards aspiring poets than readers with how it encourages completion of its exercises. But there's great material in the first half on scansion and meter and basic forms valuable for those those who just want to read more poetry.
I'm in the latter group, but I tried to do the exercises anyway. I got through thirteen before I stopped. That's where the book starts covering more exotic forms which aren't appealing at my level.
The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry is an informative, candid volume on poetic forms and structures. Ode feels geared towards aspiring poets than readers with how it encourages completion of its exercises. But there's great material in the first half on scansion and meter and basic forms valuable for those those who just want to read more poetry.
I'm in the latter group, but I tried to do the exercises anyway. I got through thirteen before I stopped. That's where the book starts covering more exotic forms which aren't appealing at my level.