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Ep 34. Poetry basics: Got rhythm?

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When my friend asked me to explain how rhythm works in poetry I thought I’d have no trouble…until I opened my poetry encyclopedia.

Show notes

  • The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
  • Looking at rhythm and meter in poetry – Poetry for Dummies
  • The Violence of Work – Geoff Goodfellow
  • Observation – Dorothy Parker
  • Mending Wall – Robert Frost
  • Another definition of blank verse
  • Heisenberg Saying Goodbye to Mum at Lilyfield – Luke Davies
  • Sonnet 18
  • Having it Out with Melancholy – Jane Kenyon

    • And if you’re keen, a little more on those fascinating names for feet and metre.

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