(10-28-2016, 05:16 PM)ellajam Wrote: I say:Ellajam - How come having the two un accented words for " in the offing there" doesn't throw it off? I get " the shadowy hare" for some reason I was reading it as " the SHAdowY hare.
in the OFFing THERE
the SHADowy HARE
Two accents per line, I don't have a problem. And note those two lines rhyme, it's a poem!
I learned meter working with the explanations in our practice threads then putting some in the workshops for members to poke at, great fun, you might give the Poetry Practice threads a read.
Ill have to take some more looks at the meter forum in the poetry practice. I get the concept but actually hearing the stresses is so tough for me.
And yes the rhyming! That is what got me the mix of what i perceived as a break in meter with the rhyme I just knew I had t o be missing something. I can't figure out what he must be highlighting or saying there. Anyway thanks for the reply and input.
Kolemath- I had no idea there was even a chance of there being any other kind of meter in this besides iambic.
I like the ideas you presented on why the meter may be this way. I do wonder if he used anapestic for the dog why it would of be 7 and 8 and not 9,10 or 11 those seem to really highlight the dog and and his experience which is far different from the speaker and that of the hunter.
Then again if it is iamb for the hunt and kill itself then 9, 10 and 11 are more along those lines.
Good stuff to think about. Thanks for your input!
Billy- thank you for yours as well , It's interesting seeing how many different perceptions of this there are even with just a few of us.
Brownlie- Interesting observation of that seeming conversational; I hadn't noticed. Do you mean part of his whole aesthetic in general or in this poem. The ending is rather conversational as well.