bad_horse
  Junior Member

: I think what I wrote earlier may be misleading. I don't mean that the lines aren't /regular/ enough. I'm not fond of poems that all have exactly the same meter; that's boring. The 19th-century masters didn't use exact meter. But they didn't vary meter in whatever way was convenient. These are some of the lines that don't scan:

releasing the blackest of rains.

This has 3 feet, so it just doesn't fit.

and it remaining unseen.

This inserts 2 more unstressed syllables at the start, giving us 3 unstressed syllables in a row. That means there's no foot at all here. You can't fit 4 syllables into a foot, and there are no generally-accepted meters lacking any stressed syllables. more »

This is one of my top contenders for Poem of the Year.

I like the images and metaphors, but the lines don't all scan smoothly.

This is one of my top contenders for Poem of the Year.