I self-studied poetry, especially meter, and it is easy to forget that way.
In my age, in my experience, formal poetry did not draw many crowds. I was born in '63 and went to common schools.
I liked the Hardy poems, two I read, here. For that, I thank the poster. The comments were interesting - a little edgy to bitchy. Like my discipline, classical music, people get a little too excited about unsupervised variation.
If Hardy was in a light vein, he'd write more freely. Wouldn't we all? Perhaps he tipped his hat to tradition, and then substituted as he pleased. And triplets were not fobidden.
- Just a heathen's nearly worthless opinion. I came for the Hardy.
peace
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