Thank you, Tim and Gray. I was primarily thinking of
logaoedic (thank you for a valuable word added to my vocabulary), since I have seen a fair bit of that in Norwegian poetry (while it seems totally absent from English poetry). But I am very interested in the effects of heterometric verse, too.
I do to some extent share Tim's scepticism. For I can "feel" how difficult the execution of a logaedic and heterometrical poem will be, compared to plain iambic. In my mind, there's a ranking, from "easy" to hard:
- Regular iambic, or iambic with few substitutions
- Iambic with plenty of substitution
- Heterometrical
- Logoaedic
- Logoaedic heterometrical
Yet, I am very tempted to move down the list, for I think that if you can succesfully pull off heterometrical and logoaedic, the hammer of meter can become a veritable sledge. So I will in time make attempts at both, and you will see me hitting my thumb - with the sledge. Such are its dangers.
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Svein Olav
.. another life