Call a cab or check out this website for more on the rhythms of meter.
"The Various Light": A Few Simple Notes:
- restraint of language/"plain language" gets less love amongst beginners (and longtime practitioners) than excess
- Longenbach uses Yeats to show "simple" language and syllables can be as powerful as one-hundred dollar words!
- Here is "The Fish"--which Longenbach explores its "anapestic nature" and low count of syllables.
- "Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931" shows that one can use meter, but also get away with a looser rhyme scheme, as well.
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