[Stylist] organizing poetry

[Jackie]

Barbara,
I have been taught that Blank Verse, is not Free! I can send you a big long article explaining this, but I will just say, keep it simple. It is not rhymed, and it is most always in iambic pentameter.
I will attach one of mine that was a prize winner so you can check the meter yourself.
I am in deep trouble now because I saved my poetry in so many ways. Example: alphabetical, by subject, by line length, by traditional, by form, by contest, published, not published, and now, because I always seem to make changes in a poem when I hear it again, I forget to change it in all of the files. Sometimes I even change the title. Now I have a mess when I have to search for a poem. Late in the game, I am learning to date everything in the file name.
I hope this helps.
I hope you can open my attachment. If I cut and paste, it will change the line length.
Good luck.
Jacqueline Williams

Clarity is just questioning having eaten its fill.
     Jenny Xie

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For Lynda and Jackie and anyone else intimately familiar with all forms of poetry, when I find myself unable to write, it seems I devise new ways to organize my poems: by category, by date written, by day of the week, by year, by letter, by month written, by number at the top, by number of words in title — yeah, I'm weird. Now I have decided to sort them by form. My question to you, then, is: I have a number of poems that are essentially written in blank verse, in that they have the same number of syllables in each line, or a few lines with one off, but they are not iambic pentameter. Are they still blank verse or free verse? (Did I mention I'm a perfectionist so want to have folders labeled correctly and poems in correct places?) Barbara Hammel _______________________________________________
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