The poet feels, with his poetry, the same certainty yet excitement as a jockey feels with a racehorse. He has sensitive hands that feel the horse's mouth, that understand all the variations of speed…Alexander Pope #poetry #apoetsear
#meterismagic #poeticmeter
Page of Latin verse text in Caroline minuscule with neumes (musical markings) over the text on the first half of the page)
found first a hymn about St. Ansbert. With #neumes! I wanted to be sure this wasn't the verse life listed in the MS description, so I read a few lines and it's immediately apparent: it's in rhythmic trochaic tetrameter catalectic, hymn meter par excellence. #poeticmeter #musicalnotation
I just realized that a huge reason for the loss of poetic meter has been our patriarchal culture’s problem discerning patterns from rules. #poeticmeter #meteredpoetry #matriarchalpoetics #apoetscraft
this was a happy day, celebrating publication of #apoetscraft from U Michigan Press with my wonderful meter student #PatriciaSmith. I’m happy this book has helped spread awareness of poetic craft including the joys of #poeticmeter, poetic form, and #metricaldiversity! Viva the heartbeats of poetry!
yes— so you’re doing “iambic blank verse”! (just a much-needed little
shoutout for what I have termed #metricaldiversity :)
#poeticmeter #apoetscraft
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Poems have feet
Some days just two. #PoeticMeter
