To an old git like me I would have thought perhaps the poem could have more
than one line/verse scheme/ latout doodah thingy -but being untutored gives
me the freedom -now awaits brickbats
P -untutored old gittern strumming to his own tune
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Subject: Re: snap: butter [with 'bach' in its NZ sense]
On 27/06/12 17:11, Max Richards wrote:
> I used to ask poetry students a question I myself would fail - if you
> met this set out as prose, would you be able to find the line endings and
set it out as verse?
Oh dear Oh dear... how often do i ask this question...
My only answer is lines have to have a breathe which is image. Pose cannot
get that image.
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