Meter is not something that can be intellectualized; it must be felt. This column focuses on the most basic poetic foot, the iamb. (ta DUM) I wrote these thoughts in response to some questions that arose at a private workshop, and felt the subject might be of interest to poets… Continue reading
There was a little girlWho had a little curlRight in the middle of her forehead,When she was good,She was very good indeed,But when she was bad she was horrid. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The same could be said of rhyme, giving the genre’s critics a field day. Fair of face… Continue reading
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