Catch a Rhyme! A Self-Teaching Guide for Young Poets

This book teaches the basics of verse composition while offering assignments for writing poems, such as completing a couplet: Vanya sneezed so much that the cat… Flew out of the window? Started playing the accordion? Called for an ambulance? What rhyme will you find for the word “cat”? Will it be precise, rich, or composite? And will the music of the verse you propose sound like this – Vanya, Vanya, Vanya, Vanya, - which specialists call a four-footed trochee?