- sapphic verse, 420
- scansion, 412
- scenario, antecedent, 122, 129, 258
- seasonal poems, 12, 58, 176, 432
- self. See also identity, social
- authenticity of, 203
- awareness of, 28
- and change of discourse, 166–67
- constructed, 164–66
- and finding yourself, 91–92
- imagination and, 172–77
- in space and time, 167–68
- motivations of, 169
- multiple aspects of, 164–66
- and persona, 177–80
- and testimony, 168
- and tone, 170–72
- typicality of, 169
- sentences, 116–17, 143–44, 277
- sestet, 56, 79, 93, 152–54, 415–17
- sestina, 417
- Shakespearean sonnet, 115, 416–17
- shape, 27–35, 40–41, 45–54, 77, 80, 108, 115, 129–30, 149–50, 213, 433.
- shaped poems, 433
- simile, 430
- single-sentence poem, 272
- sixain (sestet), 79, 415
- skeleton, of poem, 123–125, 129, 145–46
- sonnet, 14, 38, 56–65, 78–79, 85, 93–94, 114–15, 121–31, 147–56, 176–77, 256–59, 416–17
- defined, 114–15
- English/Shakespearean, 115, 416–17
- sound units, 141
- space, 32–35, 61, 167–68, 176, 271, 278
- speech acts, 107, 110–112, 115–16, 126–30 426–28 See also agency
- Spenserian stanza, 79, 416
- spondee, 412
- stanza, 32–33, 77–82
- structure, 62–63, 80–5, 112, 115–16, 122–31, 143. See also form; shape
- subject, 118, 143–45, 148, 152, 155, 279
- subjunctive mood, 425
- sutra, 176
- synecdoche, 430
- syntax, 273