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Unread 11-21-2009, 06:57 PM
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Philip: I haven't analysed the poem myself, but off hand I find a pattern of two-beat lines alternating with three-beat lines. I hadn't thought of it as syllabics, but maybe it is.

What do you think of this enjambment; isn't it right up your alley?

She is not here, but there
She might have been.


The main question is: who is "she"? At the start of the poem, I got the feeling it could be a poet's muse, and later it looked like it could be an ideal, but neither seems to fit the poem overall.
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