09-29-2011, 02:31 PM
The Snowy Mountains is my spiritual homeland 
I always suggest that anyone wanting to learn how meter can be made work perfectly using regular, honest language to appeal to people from all walks of life read the Australian balladeers, chiefly Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson. They're much like Robert Burns is to Scotland.
Burns is another good one to read for meter and fitting the vernacular into classic forms... but you do need to have a good grip on your Scots!
I always suggest that anyone wanting to learn how meter can be made work perfectly using regular, honest language to appeal to people from all walks of life read the Australian balladeers, chiefly Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson. They're much like Robert Burns is to Scotland.
Burns is another good one to read for meter and fitting the vernacular into classic forms... but you do need to have a good grip on your Scots!
It could be worse