07-03-2012, 06:13 PM
Thanks, Leanne. Thanks, Geoff. I see what you get at, Leanne, and apart from that I pronounce "experience" differently and "several" with only two syllables I totally agree. I just don't think that the overall rhythm is disturbed - but maybe that's because I'm so familiar with this poem. I shall be terribly self-conscious now when I read and write my other poems! Well, for a few days at least.
Before criticising a person, try walking a mile in their shoes. Then when you do criticise them, you're a mile away.....and you have their shoes.

