> What I guess you mean is poems written in a regular metre

I just mean poems which seem to keep hitting the exact same (stress) note.

Luke

On 10 January 2018 at 15:35, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

for what it's worth, this is what I was referring to

And suggesting that "metronomic" poetry is not sufficiently predictable in other terms. That then the system of rhythm cannot disrupt other systems (vice versa?).
It made sense to me.

On 10 January 2018 at 15:05, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Oh forget this, I got something the wrong way around there, I;m sure.

On 10 January 2018 at 14:40, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I've always liked this, it's easy and very intuitive to claim that something is metronomic. I had a question, which I suppose might not go unanswered?
Is it the case, for anyone, that a metronome fades to the extent that the poem has a Russian formalist complexity?

E.g. sonnet with end rhymes will be complex enough for the poem to exist without its rhythm and so for the rhythm to remake the poem (melopoeia).

Does anyone write poetry which is deliberately really metronomic?

Luke