Certainly, yes; I suppose; if I had been making a point in addition to disputing one, this would come into it. I agree.
And a lot more. There's the late Cobbing calling similar shapes rhymes and less similar half rhymes. I think he did that rather to wind people up, but the point was usually well made. If I had the energy to write my own, my poetics would include visual and sound...
Mind you, I was just coming down the hill and met a young child coming up. She was carrying an inflated air bed against the considerable wind and struggling consequently. It's a lot easier if you point it into the wind, I said. No it isn't, she said, in an irritable tone as if one more idiot to deal with would be end of her; and she huffed and puffed on up the hill.
L
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From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: any formalists in the crowd? -- thanks to Annie Finch!
That, I think, is one of the points you're making. Well, it's one of
the ones I am....
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