Books of Poetry Form. Alphabetic list of poetry forms and
related topics. How to Write Poetry. Essays on how to write
specific forms: |Las formas de la poesía en Español: El Poema
Concreto.| J. Zimmerman (tanka). J. Zimmerman (haiku). J.
Zimmerman (poems). New books on writing poetry. Books of Poetry
Form. |The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics, by Lewis Turco
(2000).| The Terza Rima Verse Form by J. Zimmerman. History.
Form. Examples. Books. The entire form is shown below. Dante
Alighieri has the first recorded use of the form (for The Divine
Comedy) and he may have invented it. Chaucer applied terza rima
to English and it has been used in English by Milton, Percy
Bysshe Shelley, Auden, and many others. Just because you start
with the intention of writing a Terza rima, you do not have to
keep your poem in that form. Your attempt to write a formal poem
may help you find words that you would not have found otherwise.
And you may decide to end up with a poem in a different form,
perhaps even a prose poem. Bo