> Generally being a free verser myself, I wanted to see what others thought
> of something a friend told me that I had never heard before. I am of the
> era where meter was taught in school. This friend advised that in order to
> count meter properly you must start counting from the end, not the
> beginning, of a line. What do others think?
>
> John Herbert Cunningham
This would seem to be a slightly distorted version of the metrical
commonplace that you consider the totality of a line rather than individual
bits of it when judging which metre it's written in. It wouldn't really
matter whether you started from the beginning or the end as long as the
focus ended up on the entire line.
Robin
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