>From: Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Definitions
>Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 23:30:50 +0100
>
>Well, Josephine, one would be Fats Domino on jazz, "If you don't know by
>now, lady ..."
>
>Two might be Robert Frost, playing tennis without a net.
>
>Three is usually nobody can -- so if you can come up with a definition ...
>
>Four is watch the line-endings. In formal (metered) verse, you know when
>you've reached the end of the line when you reach the right number of
>syllables.
Right number of stresses? In any case, I'd like to distinguish between
stress and syllable-stress meters.
Free verse is more complicated, which is why (despite
>appearances) it's actually more difficult to write well than metrical
>verse.
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