Abandon Verse
He has no other skill than this;To read new words and let them speak,although their forms can promise blissor stand for some wilderness we seek,his disappointments are always the same-That however...
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The first 3 lines are iambic tetrameter, and perfectly finein themselves. However, they set up expectations on the part of the reader as to what the meter is going to be.Then the piece abandons the i....
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Hi David - I love the sentiments expressed in your sonnet... but, oh dear, the meter is so higgledy piggeldy that I stumbled all the way through it. Did you try for iambic pentameter and not make it,...
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..I have no defence.Meter is an unravelling box of delightsI am tempted to throw down the stairs-The above was written pretty much intact and I shall polish it forthwith.DC
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Good on you David! Have fun unravelling, and resist the temptation to throw that box down the stairs. Jude
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