opinions sought

[Bellobazza]

Re: Glenny's question "why this oppositional attitude arises when the structure of verse is discussed?"

Analogous Allergic Reaction

A friend of mine (hmmm...call him Mick)
has allergies that make him sick
and, thought it might seem quite absurd,
what sets him off can be a word!
Like "anapaest'; "iamb"; "trochee";
"tetrameter"; or worse: "spondee".
"Caesura" makes his eyeballs glaze;
"inversion" makes his temper blaze!
Such literary terms as these
will make him tremble at the knees,
and scoff and cough and spit and splutter;
rant and rave and curse and mutter.
And all this seems real strange to me...

you see, this friend...writes poetry!

[Glenny Palmer]

Very good indeed Baz. 'Real' good Iambic. (te he).............just........

one little glitch....

rant and rave and curse and mutt-er.
And all this seems real strange to me... (lose the 'and' & replace 'real' with 'quite'.)

'rant and mutter, rave and curse' could set it up for rhyming with 'verse'....??

People have given up giving me greeting cards because I tut tut about the state of the verses in them. That's fair I reckon, as some half-poet has been paid to produce them...tut tut.

Goodonyamate
Glenny

[Neville Briggs]

Good one Will very close to the nerve.

I think a line of trochee sounds OK,....... why not Glenny ?
To emphasise the ranting and raving, ....works for me .
Is there a cosmic poetry rule that says every line must be the same metre.

Because the second last line is a new sentence, well .......my ear accepts the switch back to iambic.
I like the real because it makes an assonance with rant and rave.

Not meaning to be oppositional Glenny. Just a another view of things.

I'll be corrected if need be.

[Bellobazza]

Well...I s'pose my plan to enter this one in the Blanky Billy (serious section) is shot to bits!

Cheers, Will.
P.S. Glenny...(caesura) rant and rave....

[Maureen K Clifford]

Hey Baz - I reckon my eyes became glazed just reading that

Oh Glenny why are people so unkind




I like the little rhymes you see in birthday cards though do agree
that sometimes what is writ aint swell – but it conveys the message well
I wrote to Hallmark once and asked had they a job for me perchance
for I could write them poetry with an Australian flavour ...see
I’d write about Emus and Roos and Kookaburras , Dingoes too.
I’d write a poem, say G’day, pen nice thoughts for a Blokes birthday
I was as blue as blue could be – they said it weren’t their cup of tea.

[Glenny Palmer]

Oh Neville...... x x x

[Neville Briggs]

Glenny, like Robert Frost, I take the road less travelled.

[warooa]

The road less travelled I thought it was Graeme Connors?

[Zondrae]

and..

I thought it was me on the road to the tip.

[Neville Briggs]

Ah Zondrae, Marty, I'll lend you my book of Robert Frost, a wonderful poet.
It was a great phrase of Frost's that Graeme Connors thought of.. there's life outside of country music...thank goodness.