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Unread 03-22-2009, 10:25 AM
A. E. Stallings A. E. Stallings is offline
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It's a charming poem, and reminds one how good Plath was on motherhood--and how positive she was capable of being. I imagine the nine-line stanzas (as the nine lines of Metaphors) are a deliberate nod to the months of pregnancy.

Another neat syllabic poem (I like when, as here, syllabics use extreme enjambments, even, say, hyphenating words--lines pushing and breaking at the syllable-count barriers), "Probation," by Averill Curdy in Poetry some years back:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=10

It's in a Moore-ish-like cunningly-rhymed complex stanza form--5,7,6,6,4

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