My muse tells me the best of poets use iambic meter.
The really good expressions I have noticed in these styles,
as sonnets, nonets, quatrains - all those so-called 'perfect' verse -
will be accepted by a judge and win a comp by miles.
When rhythm streams across the page and rhyme is never missing,
a writer in ta dum vibration, song-like essence captures.
If lyrics off the tongue all roll in strolling, lilting fashion,
a master of this form will have an audience in raptures.
Instead of non-melodic writes that give words such tongue lashings,
I want to learn the beat and rhythm poets past did treasure -
give music to the ears in this ideal of form aesthetics.
To be an expert with this mode would be my greatest pleasure.
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The thing with meter and rhyme
is first learn to use them well,
then never think about it again.
I've seen it since the meter workshop. People thought they were going back to what was comfortable, but you can hear a strengthened meter in their words.
Start simple, Google 'iambic examples', read them, remembering always, and this is crucial, that meter is based on the natrural stresses of English.
When we say-
The language is the same, only the emphasis is different
the stresses naturally occur as
The LAN/guage IS/ the SAME/, ONly the /EMphasis/ is DIFFerent
if we pronounce it as
The lanGUAGE/ is THE same/, onLY the/ emPHASis/ is diffER/ent
it sounds utterly bizarre.
When you can hear those natural stresses it becomes ridiculously easy to crit other people's meter and look clever, like I do. And not much harder to write good meter.
If you can't commit to the whole rhyme workshop you will be allowed to post examples/experiments if you contribute to the discussion on the workshop page and critique at least 3 other workshop postings for each of your own. And you need to talk to me about it first by PM, ok?
thanks jess
but this was really just a tongue in cheek
- not really a request to join a workshop late...
i actually don't have time, much as i'd love to.....
i will as soon as i can though...
but lol
you never mentioned how my meter was...??
love judy
oops, sorry, got carried away.
The meter is irregular but good, flows well.