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Originally Posted by Michael Cantor
I'm curious. Does anybody actually use Timothy's techniques outside of a classroom? Does anybody actually use it to help write a poem, as opposed to using it after the fact to analyze somebody else's poem (or your own), or to pad a paper?
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Exactly the same questions I’ve asked myself, Michael. It’s amazing that Shakespeare, Milton, Dickinson, Frost, Millay, Wilbur ( and so on and so on and so on) ever managed to write a poem without access to a pedantic, overly-analytical, absurdly systematic rule book on versification.
Richard