Comments | chronarchy: A distinct lack of poetic talent is my meter. . .

chronarchy

A distinct lack of poetic talent is my meter. . .

Jun 13, 2007 14:33

So there's this poem I've been working on. Its initial lines were typed in on Dec. 11, 2001, though it may be a few months older. It very much follows a certain. . . shall we say. . . lack of meter ( Read more... )

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wishesofastar June 13 2007, 21:40:38 UTC

So wouldn't that be "freeverse"?

chronarchy June 14 2007, 14:29:02 UTC

Nope. Freeverse has a cadence to it, at least.

Really, these are just broken up lines, looking at it critically.

Sure, I could pretend that they're freeverse, but anyone whose read enough freeverse would know that this isn't anything more than poetified sentences broken up.

wishesofastar June 14 2007, 20:42:17 UTC

Funny; I always thought that's what freeverse was.

chronarchy June 14 2007, 20:55:33 UTC

I may have taken too many snooty English classes here (I tell you, this department is like the toilet of English departments), but from the poetry classes I took, as well as the rhetoric classes, I was informed numerous times that freeverse is unmetered, but it replaces meter with cadence, runs with alliteration (and her siblings) at times, or uses various poetic devices to make it "poetry" instead of "hacked sentences".

Really, these are just hacked sentences.