A poet's guide for writing contemporary pastiche from canzone, heptameter, terza rima, couplet, kyrielle, English sonnet, Italian sonnet, villanelle, cinquain, quatrezein, Sicilian quatrain, roundel, lai, to pantoum, haiku, virelai nouveau, tetractys and tanka, with great examples of rhymes and forms in poems of George Herbert, Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare, Charles d'Orleans, Arlo Bates, Matsuo Basho, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Inder Sabha.
