Monday, July 14, 2008

Push and Pull

You most certainly can improve a free-verse poem by introducing an element of dramatic tension into your conception.

In rhymed, metrical verse, the tension is already there (in a sense). Look at Shakespeare's sonnets: see if you can tell how he interplays tension and slack from line to line, quatrain to quatrain, then to the final couplet.

Food for thought?

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