A poem is an artifice of thought as well as of typography, sonics, and tropes, and there is no thought except in symbols, in forms. Every element of language is a form of some kind. The letters of the alphabet are forms - conventions, the meanings of which we have agreed upon in order to communicate. Syllables are forms as are words, phrases and sentences. The poet is interested in all of these forms, since his or her medium is language. On the ideational level a writer deals with the subject of words, specifically in their grammatic and syntactic forms, which are called schemes or schemas. There are orthographical schemes, constructional schemes (which have much to do with syntax or word order in a sentence), exclusive, inclusive, substitutive, and repetitive schemes, diction and voice. All of these subjects are covered in length in The Book of Literary Terms, but many applicable terms are explained in the glossary.

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