Rhymes and Rhythm

I just received a copy of Rhymes and Rhythm by Michael Vaughan-Rees (2^nd ed. 2010). The book has 112 pages and comes with 1 CD-ROM and 1 DVD. I got it for GBP 22.69. The 1^st ed. was published in 1994 by Macmillan.
Here's the table of contents:

• Part I - Syllables, stress and rhythm
•  Ch. 1: Syllables, stress and rhythm
• Part II - Stress in words and phrases
• Ch. 2: Stress in verbs
• Ch. 3: Stress in nouns and adjectives
• Ch. 4: Stress in compounds and phrases
• Ch. 5: Stress patterns in words and phrases
• Ch. 6: Stress shift
• Part III - Fast, natural speech
• Ch. 7: Introduction to fast, natural speech
• Ch. 8: Elision
• Ch. 9: Assimilation
• Part IV - Playing with poems



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Michael Vaughan-Rees

• Ch. 10: Limericks
• Ch. 11: Other types of poem
• Ch. 12: Similes, sayings and sounds
• Appendices
• Appendix 1: Key to the tasks
• Appendix 2: Completed poems
• Appendix 3: Book map
• Appendix 4: CD-ROM thumbnails

More on the book's contents in a later post.