Two contemporary poets turn their attention to poetry as a living, rhythmic, often musical performance. Their extensive selections include epic, folk songs, the Romantics, the Victorians, Harlem Renaissance poets, and contemporary hip hop. For many readers, the most familiar poetic meter is Shakespeare's iambic pentameter, but this barely scratches the surface of the extraordinary diversity of rhythmic patterns that have been used by poets through the ages. "Measure for Measure" has sections for Accentual Metre (Kipling, Bishop, Auden), the Trochees (Blake, Dickinson, Dorothy Parker), the Anapests (Byron, Frost, Langston Hughes); other sections cover the iambs, ballads, and more exotic meters like the amphibrachs, dipodics, hendecasyllabic, and Sapphic.
