Caleb, you've done this much-sullied board a service by posting Impulse but done Frost a disservice by quoting him out of context. Don't you people realize that this is Part V of The Hill Wife and that you're discussing--as it were--the concluding couplet of a sonnet without having ever encountered the poem? At least ewrgall has the wit to say it reminds him of another Frost poem, as indeed it should, that being Part II., House Fear. My esteemed friends, Mssrs. Clawson and Mezey, didn't mention Hill Wife on their short list of great Frost poems, but it's on mine. It's a terrifying narrative told not in blank verse, but in five tight little lyrics which MacIdiot, possessed as he is of what Mezey and the Jesuits condemn as "Invincible Ignorance," hasn't the craft to scan much less the wisdom to understand. "Promote a fourth stress?"
The long lines are hypermetric trimeters, and you are a savage.
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