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Topics discussed in this episode include:

The Iron Lyre: Poetry, Heavy Metal, and the New Sublime

Alice and Elijah vs. The Abyss on SLEERICKETS

Melissa Range!

Aaron Baker!

David Southward!

"The Rhythms of English Poetry" by Derek Attridge

My John Donne episode

My George Herbert episode

My Gerard Manley Hopkins episode

My Mark Jarman episode

Speech stress vs. meter

Adventures in etymology

What was accomplished on the cross?

The Aztec cosmic blood machine

Un triolet par moi

We are worms!

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The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight

Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
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 (/ /)