Post and critique metrical/formal verse. Metrical is defined as stress-based meter (accentual or accentual-syllabic). Syllabics and non-metrical forms should be posted in Non-Met.

Post stress-based (accentual-syllabic or accentual) poetry at The Deep End for advanced critique, close reading, and frank comments. Work should be well developed, not an early draft. If you feel uncomfortable with close attention and emphasis on craft, or attention to the standard or lack thereof of your critique especially by TDE moderators, then post at Metrical. Your work may be moved at the moderators' discretion.

Free verse, unmetered rhymed verse, forms such as sestinas, pantoums, ghazals, etc. when they are unmetered, prose poems, and syllabics -- post & critique. Serious writing and professional attitude are expected.

Discussion, posting, and critique of poetry and prose translation, and adaptations closely based on texts in other languages. The original text and a literal version should be included wherever possible. Adaptations should be identified as such in the title of the thread.

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The tradition of the masters: the classics & how they did it. (Metrical Poetry & Free Verse.)

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Coming up: Light Verse Bakeoff

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