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Unread 12-13-2001, 02:15 PM
A. E. Stallings A. E. Stallings is offline
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Mike and Tim, Catherine is lucky to have such fine editors. I enjoyed this poem upon first reading it, but on each further reading have admired it more and more. (You get to know a poem better even by typing it out to post.)

I'd agree with Tim, too, that the point of this type of verse is not necessarily to have each shift in line length "mean" something exactly, but for it to be musical, and sound strangely right. So yes, I'd venture, sometimes where the rimes are "convenient"--where they spontaneously offer themselves. This is not a verse form that "hides" rimes, but flaunts them. (I guess that's one of the reasons I like it.)
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