Following up on last month’s talk about the two “root” styles of verse, today we’ll explore metrical verse. Most formal poetry uses this as its basis.
Metrical verse
Most English verse uses an accentual-syllabic rhythm. While this could be four stresses in an eight-syllable line with no regard to the pattern, most accentual-syllabic verse uses meter: iambic [...]
There are two traditional areas in the exploration of poetic forms: rhythm and rhyme. For the most part, stanza or line length is based on choices concerning both of these areas.
I’m saving issues about rhyme for another time; this article will be focusing on rhythm and the varieties of it in poetry.
At a basic level, [...]
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