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Originally posted by Jerry Glenn Hartwig:
Charles
Good luck with the site. You might want to use Turco and The Princeton Encyclopedia as quick checks as to what you're missing. It will save you a lot of time, using the results of their legwork to compile a list.
I didn't notice the double dactyll listed (may have missed it) or, as Roger stated, the ovillejo. Rhina can give you the best info on that form.
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Double Dactyl
I don't have the Ovillejo, yet, but know where to find it now that I know it exists. I also have about 70 others that aren't in the list of 500. I need to fill out enough of the entry to make them coherent before putting them out, and I figured what I have is enough to get folks started and more than I've seen gathered anywhere else.
If anything in Turco is not on the site already, it's because he didn't define it well, and I haven't researched enough for a minimum filing on the entry.
As for
Princeton, I discussed some of the difficulties above. I am going through it, and it is where I dug up some forms, like the zéhel/zahal, and definitions for others that Turco skimmed over.
In the last week, I've been more concerned about getting out my other resource, my list of
Tips for Writing better Poetry and Song Lyrics . I have 90 of them out, and will have 100 listed before I go to bed. I have a bit over 200 total, so should have them all up with at least minimal entries by the end of the weekend. This is going much faster than the forms. Of course, there are also fewer fields and cross-linking, and I'm simplifying some of the tips since they reference information that will be in the Forms repository. I'm also eliminating almost all of my home-grown examples that are in the books.
I've been working on these two projects to put together books for at least four years. No need for other hobbies when one is doing this sort of stuff. I'm just glad I finally decided to put them out unfinished on the Web. They are still good resources unfinished, and it takes some of the pressure off to get them out as books.
Still, I welcome any forms I've missed or ideas for writing better poetry. Just don't send the latter to me yet, since less than half the ones I have are out. No need to duplicate.
Charley