The Harper Anthology of Poetry has an appendix on Prosody which is a good concise introduction to poetic meters and forms. Published in 1981 and edited by American poet John Frederick Nims, it's out of print but available in many libraries, and cheap used copies are easily found on the internet. The anthology itself is a useful one to have. -- =============================================== Jon Corelis http://jcorelis.googlepages.com/joncorelis ===============================================