Versecraft

"Christmas Tree" by James Merrill


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Topics discussed in this episode include:

-New Critical Rococo

-The Changing Light at Sandover

-The Ingram Merrill Foundation

-Shape poems

-My George Herbert episode

-"Pindarick Odes"

-"Intimations of Immortality" by William Wordsworth

-"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold

-"Santa Baby" by Eartha Kitt

-What do Christmas trees and dying men have in common? 

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Art by David Anthony Klug

List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

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