Well, Mark, as long as you did not rhyme "roots" and "boots" and go "Ovid"
on us with your legs sinking into the earth while transforming into a local
mythical tree - you will be fine and so well Kilmer. Obviously her verse
owns those trees and you is but a humming tenant!Sorry!
Stephen V
Blog: http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> Here's an aspect of meter that we never covered during any of the
> past donnybrooks: its usefulness for marching. No army ever advanced
> to free verse. So, earlier today, as I slogged through the day-old
> snow in the improbable forest that borders my lodgings, I realized
> that I was keeping cadence by humming, over and over, "I think that
> I shall never see-ee-ee/ a pome beauteeful as a tree-ee-ee." Curse
> you, Joyce Kilmer!
>
> Mark
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