03-13-2015, 12:11 PM
Thank you so much - I was quite dismayed by some of the responses - my intention was exactly what you read: it was just meant as a sort of over-the-top fancy joke. So I was a bit taken aback when someone said it descended into "meter vomit"!
I hadn't consciously thought about meter when I wrote it, I just played it by ear; but my research this evening confirms what I suspected and what you write: I can't find a single poem written in common meter that sticks rigidly to it - it would sound like a metronome if you did. Also, unless I'm mistaken, the first stanza is 9 7 8 7 - which isn't common meter.
Anyway, my intention was really to entertain and I'm pleased I succeeded at least once!
Kind regards
David
Oh - I was going to end it with something like:
Your private chamber sees such traffic
We may yet need install
A ticket booth atop the stair
And parking in the hall.
I hadn't consciously thought about meter when I wrote it, I just played it by ear; but my research this evening confirms what I suspected and what you write: I can't find a single poem written in common meter that sticks rigidly to it - it would sound like a metronome if you did. Also, unless I'm mistaken, the first stanza is 9 7 8 7 - which isn't common meter.
Anyway, my intention was really to entertain and I'm pleased I succeeded at least once!
Kind regards
David
Oh - I was going to end it with something like:
Your private chamber sees such traffic
We may yet need install
A ticket booth atop the stair
And parking in the hall.