06-28-2019, 08:07 AM
I'm getting what you're saying, but I'm having trouble seeing how it applies.
If I have a message, I take as much or as little space as necessary to get it across. A quatrain, if a quatrain will serve; an octect or an octet and a quatrain if not. Line length determined - mostly - by the voice I want to establish. Any other considerations of form seem irrelevant to me.
I doubt it has much relevance for the reader, as well.
If I have a message, I take as much or as little space as necessary to get it across. A quatrain, if a quatrain will serve; an octect or an octet and a quatrain if not. Line length determined - mostly - by the voice I want to establish. Any other considerations of form seem irrelevant to me.
I doubt it has much relevance for the reader, as well.
There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery. TS Eliot