Blackie Malone
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I'm going to have to delve further into him. Thank you.BlackShanglan said:The section as a whole is about the coming of spring; this is a stanza from the middle of it. The lines beginning with periods are meant to be indented, which I can't seem to do properly with this editor.
The thing with this stanza is ... between the alliteration, the rhyme scheme, the caesuras that come and go precisely as he bids them, the meter that constantly shifts and yet is somehow perfectly right and patterned, the ever-varying patterns of sound repetition, and the stunning control of speed and tension, it would take me half a day just to say what he's doing. How does a man get the vision and proficiency to imagine that and to execute it? I think I've done something clever when I find a meter that isn't a grotesque mis-match to my feeling - one meter, with which I plod carefully and stolidly through my poem. His meter is the most brilliant, exuberant, delightful thing I think I've ever seen. What I wouldn't give to have the talent to do that.
Shanglan
ps...you have the talent.



