Poetic Craft:
The Toolbox
rhetoric, prosody, rhyme, meter, conventional forms
online dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Anagrams (George W. Bush = BREW EGO GUSH)
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable ("Giving the Derivation, Source, or Origin of Common Phrases, Allusions, and Words That Have a Tale to Tell")
Online Dictionary at Datasegment.com--a group of useful dictionaries & thesauruses
Poetry Tool (from Poetry Foundation.org)--look up poets, poems, articles
Prosody (essay on traditional poetic forms, from Expansive Poetry & Music Online)
Rhetorical Figures (definitions and examples, from alliteration to zeugma)
Rhyme (essay by Fred Feirstein)
RhymeZone (rhyming dictionary & more)
Sonnet Central (everything you always wanted to know about sonnets)
Versification (definitions & examples)
Contact me:
Poetry Librarian:
David Graham
