03-26-2014, 06:31 AM
(03-26-2014, 06:30 AM)Leanne Wrote: Poems such as The Son of a Fool by C.J. Dennis -- though an anal soul might call them "metric variants", in truth he's simply writing to the beat.we need an example of /non-rhyming/ accentual poetry to test whether sticking to the beats improves the poem. Were we to change the breaks in rhyming poetry, a reader would just read through to the rhyme.

