I heard you say in a some other thread that you have been writing almost exclusively in three and four foot lines for some years now (I assume mostly iambic). The comment intrigued me, because different poets clearly have different preferences in lengths of line-- and obviously, how quickly the end of a line is reached, in Metrical verse, will greatly effect rhythm, rhyme, phrasing and metrical freedom. For example, reversing the second foot has drastic consequences in Iambic Pentameter, but appears to be a fairly common substitution in Iambic Tetrameter.
Anyway, am interested to hear your thoughts around these Formal choices. (Was intending to send you a PM...then saw this new column.)
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