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Unread 04-08-2002, 12:52 PM
graywyvern graywyvern is offline
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--just an addendum:

the RADIO is FULL of metrical poetry! just take
away the music. mostly it's either iambic tetrameter,
or the ballad meter of iambic tetrameter plus trimeter
in alternating lines. i would not go so far as to say
that all of it is terrible as POETRY, but you would
probably be wiser to listen to the rhythms than the
words if you would like to be a good metric poet. their
liberties with exact meter are in no way different from
the liberties of past poets, except there are more of them.

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