> Re the question of what is poetry, I do think it is really rather funny
> (ha ha not wierd) that just because someone wants to write iambic
> pentameter and someone else gives them some tips on how to do it, the
> whole nature of poetry seems to be threatened in some quarters! Just
> because some people want to use meter, doesn't mean free verse is not
> poetry. My recently coedited book An Exaltation of Forms includes
> sections on meters and forms by many poets: sections on accentual
> meter, syllabic meter, counted verse (meter formed of counting words)
> and various accentual-syllabic meters (not only iambic but also dactylic,
> sapphic meter, etc.) as well as free verse. Each of these involves
> repetition of some aspect of language (free verse involves repetition of
> line breaks), which is why they are all poetry, in my opinion.
How does one repeat a line-break? What in language doesn't involve repetition?
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