Yes, Greg's right -- I was feeling glib and played with his off-handed comment in #20, 'if you put a gun to my head'. It backfired. I was hoping it would be disarmingly cute. (The mood these days in our world sits on a hair-trigger, I'm afraid).
Perhaps I shouldn't have stretched the definition of 'metrical' as I did. Of course I realize metrical poetry refers to the adherence to established forms of poetry that is composed with stressed and unstressed syllables in recognizable and repeated patterns.Maybe it's better expressed by calling it classical metric. I don't know. I'm just learning.
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