Thanks Lobo..OK…My cat is fat.She sat on my hat,So that was that.
Now it’s a poem.A very very bad poem.
I really hope that even people who say “rhyme=poetry” and “no rhyme=prose” can at least appreciate that a few lines of evocative free verse is more “poetic” than that bit of doggerel?
There is NOBODY on this forum who went to school when all poetry rhymed!Not unless you’re a thousand years old, anyway.
“Blank” verse stretches far back into antiquity…it has regular meter and no rhyme… It’s the poetry of Homer, of Virgil, and of Shakespeare, and is still written today.“Free” verse has neither rhyme nor meter… but became popular in the 19th and early 20th century… I’m not saying there isn’t great rhyming poetry.But if you were taught that the lack of rhyme means Walt Whitman and TS Eliot were not poets… or Marianne Moore… Dylan Thomas… and a host of others who were already published, if not long gone, before you even knew how to read…how sad.
Thanks Lobo..OK…My cat is fat.She sat on my hat,So that was that.
Now it’s a poem.A very very bad poem.
I really hope that even people who say “rhyme=poetry” and “no rhyme=prose” can at least appreciate that a few lines of evocative free verse is more “poetic” than that bit of doggerel?
There is NOBODY on this forum who went to school when all poetry rhymed!Not unless you’re a thousand years old, anyway.
“Blank” verse stretches far back into antiquity…it has regular meter and no rhyme… It’s the poetry of Homer, of Virgil, and of Shakespeare, and is still written today.“Free” verse has neither rhyme nor meter… but became popular in the 19th and early 20th century… I’m not saying there isn’t great rhyming poetry.But if you were taught that the lack of rhyme means Walt Whitman and TS Eliot were not poets… or Marianne Moore… Dylan Thomas… and a host of others who were already published, if not long gone, before you even knew how to read…how sad.