Comments on: 30 Poems in 30 Days: A Brief Glossary of Meter http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-a-brief-glossary-of-meter/ The blog of writer J.C. Hewitt Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:21:17 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Saul Nadata http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-a-brief-glossary-of-meter/comment-page-1/#comment-184003 Saul Nadata Thu, 08 May 2008 04:42:30 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-a-brief-glossary-of-meter/#comment-184003 Date Night At last, by the pool, we found each other, like how in New York we kept meeting by the Alice statue. We sat in the dark with our take out food, exhausted but still so deeply in love. Date Night

At last, by the pool,
we found each other,
like how in New York
we kept meeting by
the Alice statue.
We sat in the dark
with our take out food,
exhausted but still
so deeply in love.

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]]> By: Rosemary Nissen-Wade http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-a-brief-glossary-of-meter/comment-page-1/#comment-119774 Rosemary Nissen-Wade Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:29:54 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-a-brief-glossary-of-meter/#comment-119774 Yes but here it's a noun - that's different. Yes but here it’s a noun – that’s different.

]]> By: Connie Williams http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-a-brief-glossary-of-meter/comment-page-1/#comment-119493 Connie Williams Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:05:15 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-a-brief-glossary-of-meter/#comment-119493 Rosemary, you are right -- I lost a line: let's make it read beginning with the fourth line -- He does not hear them loudly howl When in the dark they cry and growl This works for the meter, I may make another stab at it later for rhyme, I quit like this one -- oh me, I've used dark again . . . . Rosemary, you are right — I lost a line: let’s make it read beginning with the fourth line –

He does not hear them loudly howl
When in the dark they cry and growl

This works for the meter, I may make another stab at it later for rhyme, I quit like this one — oh me, I’ve used dark again . . . .

]]> By: Rosemary Nissen-Wade http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-a-brief-glossary-of-meter/comment-page-1/#comment-119433 Rosemary Nissen-Wade Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:01:19 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-a-brief-glossary-of-meter/#comment-119433 Oh, so it is! Fancy us missing it. Ha ha, one way and another, thanks to cm who hates him, we are all having a fresh look at Frost! I love that phrase about the pups too. I think something went wrong with fourth line in typing it up. Surely "at work" should be start of a new line, which should also have a few more words? Oh, so it is! Fancy us missing it.

Ha ha, one way and another, thanks to cm who hates him, we are all having a fresh look at Frost!

I love that phrase about the pups too.

I think something went wrong with fourth line in typing it up. Surely “at work” should be start of a new line, which should also have a few more words?

]]> By: Connie Williams http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-a-brief-glossary-of-meter/comment-page-1/#comment-119385 Connie Williams Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:03:20 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-a-brief-glossary-of-meter/#comment-119385 It's a parody of Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost Well, there's not much else to say about it, it is what it is. I love "foolish moon-mad pups." It’s a parody of Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost
Well, there’s not much else to say about it, it is what it is. I love “foolish moon-mad pups.”

]]> By: John Hewitt http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-a-brief-glossary-of-meter/comment-page-1/#comment-119309 John Hewitt Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:34:09 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-a-brief-glossary-of-meter/#comment-119309 Connie: The poem felt a little flat. I think the form was to rigid for you to say what you wanted. Thats one of my concerns with meter. It forces too many compromises. Sandra: Way to mock Iambic Pentameter! Rosemary: "serotonin bliss" I know it well. CM: That is a very challenging form. Too hard for me. I think the challenge is to keep the form but move past the formal tone. Then you might create a minor revolution. Connie: The poem felt a little flat. I think the form was to rigid for you to say what you wanted. Thats one of my concerns with meter. It forces too many compromises.

Sandra: Way to mock Iambic Pentameter!

Rosemary: “serotonin bliss” I know it well.

CM: That is a very challenging form. Too hard for me. I think the challenge is to keep the form but move past the formal tone. Then you might create a minor revolution.

]]> By: Rosemary Nissen-Wade http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-a-brief-glossary-of-meter/comment-page-1/#comment-119050 Rosemary Nissen-Wade Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:43:49 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-a-brief-glossary-of-meter/#comment-119050 Dear friends, I know how to use various metres, but tend to forget which is called what (except of course the iamb, which we all know). For others who are in the same boat, I thought I'd share this little verse which someone once gave me. It's useful as it also indicates the most appropriate ways to use different metres. (I'm sorry, I don't know the author, but I believe it was quoted in "About Literature" by Sue Woolfe and Sue Hampton, Macmillan 1984.) I include the way I personally note metre: . = unstressed syllable, / - stressed syllable. Memorise this verse (or keep it handy!): Iambic feet are firm and flat And come down heavily like that. ././././ Trochees dancing very lightly Sparkle, froth and bubble brightly. /./././. Dactylic daintiness lilting so prettily Moves about fluttering rather than wittily. /../../../.. While for speed and for haste such a rhythm is best As we find in the race of the quick Anapest. ../../../../ Dear friends, I know how to use various metres, but tend to forget which is called what (except of course the iamb, which we all know). For others who are in the same boat, I thought I’d share this little verse which someone once gave me. It’s useful as it also indicates the most appropriate ways to use different metres. (I’m sorry, I don’t know the author, but I believe it was quoted in “About Literature” by Sue Woolfe and Sue Hampton, Macmillan 1984.) I include the way I personally note metre:
. = unstressed syllable, / – stressed syllable.

Memorise this verse (or keep it handy!):

Iambic feet are firm and flat
And come down heavily like that.
././././

Trochees dancing very lightly
Sparkle, froth and bubble brightly.
/./././.

Dactylic daintiness lilting so prettily
Moves about fluttering rather than wittily. /../../../..

While for speed and for haste such a rhythm is best
As we find in the race of the quick Anapest.
../../../../

]]> By: Rosemary Nissen-Wade http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-a-brief-glossary-of-meter/comment-page-1/#comment-119039 Rosemary Nissen-Wade Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:38:57 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-a-brief-glossary-of-meter/#comment-119039 Well, dear cm, thank you for this. I had never heard of Sapphics before, and it was time I did! I'll be having some fun experimenting with this form at some stage, and I believe you that it's hard. Your poem is amazing, quite different from what we have seen of you here so far, and with such depth and power. Well, your work always has depth and power, but this is in a different way, driven by the metre as much as the subject matter. And oh, those last two lines - gorgeous, I could sink my teeth into them! Well, dear cm, thank you for this. I had never heard of Sapphics before, and it was time I did! I’ll be having some fun experimenting with this form at some stage, and I believe you that it’s hard.

Your poem is amazing, quite different from what we have seen of you here so far, and with such depth and power. Well, your work always has depth and power, but this is in a different way, driven by the metre as much as the subject matter. And oh, those last two lines – gorgeous, I could sink my teeth into them!

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