It's a timely question for me becaue I'm struggling with a longish (for me) blank verse poem--a "low" piece similar in some respects to Ray Pospisil's.
The hard thing is to maintain the lyric intensity of a good short poem and to avoid making the language feel like mere chopped up prose even if it's technically blank verse. When I read longer poems, here or in fancy pants journals, the stretches of slack language are disappointing. It's even harder when you're using "plain speech" and can't use "high" embellishments.
Frost's achievement is so easy to underestimate!
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