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Let's try some trochees!
The second experiment in meter is a quatrain of Trochaic Tetrameter.
dum ta/ dum ta/ dum ta/ dum ta
dum ta/ dum ta/ dum ta/ dum ta
dum ta/ dum ta/ dum ta/ dum ta
dum ta/ dum ta/ dum ta/ dum ta
Think of learning meter like 'mental muscle memory'
When you learn something well enough you don't have to think about it.
You will have noticed there is very little formal meter in my poetry but because I know it it slips in when appropriate.
Many poets have an objection to learning meter because they think it will restrict them into formalism. Quite the the opposite, it expands your creative abilities.
Have a go, it only requires writing four four line poems and I think this could be the best workshop I have run on Meter.
https://www.neopoet.com/workshop/basic-and-essential-meter
And it does make a difference, An American once said to me, facetiously-
"The language is the same only the emphasis is different"
https://vocaroo.com/i/s0kPMPwxSNRZ
cheers
Jess
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Sydney, Australia
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The Romantics, The Mersey Sound, The Beats and, of course, The Bard
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lovedly
Sun, 2018-05-13 00:09
The language is the same only the emphasis is different
that is all the difference beteen
USA AND UK ENGLISH
Pronunciation cum spelling
SIR JESS
SINCE YOU ARE AN AUSSIE
you r English
most here
stan ..moonman emo and mark
are all incl
Gee
USAeeeee
Many are Canadiens too
and
raj_sublime only has Indi poetry
Nigerians
which style they use Lovedly doesn't know it
A good start I will also over see
if you don't again abuse me
at my old age
I am now getting senti
Euthanasia may call me
Guess what is Lovedly
apart from abusing me
weirdelf
Sun, 2018-05-13 00:19
No abuse, I promise.
Actually, Brit, US, Canadian, Indian, Nigerian or Aussie it's all English and the meter is mostly the same. Did you listen to that Vocaroo clip? I was satirising the differences which are not that big really.
The meter in Shakespeare (Brit) or Longfellow (US), Soyinka (Nigerian) or Service (Canadian) is the same.
cheers,
Jess
A new workshop on the most important element of poetry-
'Rhythm and Meter in Poetry'
https://www.neopoet.com/workshop/rhythm-and-meter-poetry
author commentweirdelf
Sun, 2018-05-13 00:21
Lovedly makes an interesting point.
Brit, US, Canadian, Indian, Nigerian or Aussie it's all English and the meter is mostly the same. In that Vocaroo clip I was satirising the differences which are not that big really.
The meter in Shakespeare (Brit) or Longfellow (US), Soyinka (Nigerian) or Service (Canadian) is the same.
cheers,
Jess
A new workshop on the most important element of poetry-
'Rhythm and Meter in Poetry'
https://www.neopoet.com/workshop/rhythm-and-meter-poetry
author commentlovedly
Sun, 2018-05-13 00:46
cheers now
no fears
GN
ENGLISH
UK POETRY ...IS always RIGHT others are off shoots
Favour
USA
FAVOR
as also with
Flavour eng
flavor usa
weirdelf
Sun, 2018-05-13 01:25
and pronounced the same
metricly speaking.
No one says favOUR, eh. Flavour is pronounced the same as flavor. Starting to get the idea, my dear?
cheers,
Jess
A new workshop on the most important element of poetry-
'Rhythm and Meter in Poetry'
https://www.neopoet.com/workshop/rhythm-and-meter-poetry
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