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Originally posted by Tim Love:
I'll find the site useful. I wouldn't call an elegy a "form", though I know of books that do. I think in the classification system it's worth distinguishing between forms that depend on spelling (e.g. acrostics), those that depend on sound, those that depend on visual effects, etc. I think the Oulipo stuff's under-represented. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homep...s/forfrset.htm
is useful. It lists many forms, and Alan Reynolds has impressively implemented many.
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Thanks, Tim, for your support, your suggestions, and for the link. I agree on "elegy" and a lot of other entries. As you say, some call them forms. Form to me means structure. That was what started me on this information-gathering quest in the first place. All of the books I found were not well organized and mixing apples, oranges, pears, and cucumbers. Anaphora? It's a poetic device that might affect structure, but it is not a structure.
The nice thing about how I have the classification system set up is that I can add more. Its a relational database, so I just need to add the category and relate the forms to it, then print out a menu.
Off the top of my head, I only know of two visual forms I have listed, and they are both linked under visual poetry:
http://www.poetryrenewal.com/forms/004/490.shtml. I'll have to think about the other categories. Right now a lot of them are packed together on the "Other Requirements" menu:
http://www.poetryrenewal.com/forms/cat15.shtml.
It is a WIP, so I'll be looking to add more information to present entries, new entries, and new ways of getting at the information as time goes on.
Thank you, again.
Charley