Table of contents

1. The Petrarchan Sonnet: Octave, Volta, Sestet Sonnet·14 lines
2. Write a Sonnet in Forty Minutes Exercise·14 lines
3. Haiku: Seventeen Sounds in Three Lines Haiku·3 lines
4. Sonnet 18 Read Closely: What the Volta Does Reading note·6 lines
5. A Line-Break Drill in Twelve Minutes Exercise·10 lines
6. Line Breaks in Free Verse: A Working Method Free verse·18 lines
7. Tanka: Five Lines and a Pivot Tanka·5 lines
8. Bashō's Frog Pond: One Sound and No Comment Reading note·6 lines
9. Revise by Subtraction: Cut One Line in Five Exercise·10 lines
10. Cinquain: Five Lines, One Image Cinquain·5 lines
11. Dickinson's Narrow Fellow: Fear Held at Arm's Length Reading note·8 lines
12. Fourteen Lines, Three Turns: The English Sonnet Sonnet·14 lines
13. One Sense, One Season: A Haiku Exercise Exercise·3 lines
14. Villanelle: Two Refrains That Will Not Leave Villanelle·19 lines

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