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Unread 01-10-2003, 10:46 PM
robert mezey robert mezey is offline
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Dimeters are not that constraining (except in villanelles),
and they are wonderful when they're wonderful, as in that
(very loose) dimeter poem of Larkin's, and in poem after poem of Hardy's--I'll list a few of his dimeter masterpieces:
Lonely Days, The Moon Looks In, Timing Her, Lament, I Need Not Go, and--best of all (it would be my nomination for best poem in dimeters in the English language, maybe in any language ---To Lizbie Browne. ( And I've mentioned just some of his best ones, there are others.)
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