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This is awesome! Also, in my folder of other people's poems I have one that does this, too, but I can't remember who did it off the top of my head nor can I recall its name to quickly find it. I believe it's a he and a nineteenth-century writer, though. (Did
I ever mention that I love nineteenth-century poets?)
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<blockquote type="cite">On Oct 2, 2022, at 18:04, jacqueline Williams via Stylist <stylist@nfbnet.org> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This might help if the form stays like I paste it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This has been my bible. It does not quite get to iambic pentameter, the most common in the English language. Be sure to count the syllables and where the accent is in each.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="OLE_LINK2"></a><a name="OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><b>Jeanne Resnick, Why I think she was a great teacher. She showed us by example, rather than just telling us.</b></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><b> Jacqueline Williams Oct. ‘16<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><b>Quatrains of Sample Feet and one Five-liner
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2">Iambic<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2">The man who lives upstairs
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2">has twenty dining chairs<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2">a hall rack ten feet tall<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2">and that is all<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2">Trochaic<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2">Mary had a little lambkin<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2">covered with a damask napkin
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2">carried safe in wicker basket<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2">"Are you comfy?" she would ask it<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2">Anapestic<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2">In the dark of the night<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2">when there's wind and there's rain
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2">on my vintage champagne<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2">Natalie called to me<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2">"Come to me, bed with me,"
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2">caused me to explicate,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2">"Sorry, I'm celibate."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2">Iambic<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2">I write iambic quatrain plain<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2">with nothing much for me to gain
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2">except to make a smooth refrain
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2">My teacher then will not complain</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Have fun. Jackie Williams<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Stylist <stylist-bounces@nfbnet.org> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>missruthnfb via Stylist<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 2, 2022 9:49 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Barbara HAMMEL via Stylist <stylist@nfbnet.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> missruthnfb <missruthnfb@yahoo.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Stylist] Some Poetry Trivia<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">Miss Ruth here. Barbara, you're a Poetry Savant. I recognized some words in your email, such as "the" and "from," but the rest is alien to me. :)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">Just jesting! </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">But I wonder if you wouldn't mind giving us a poetry primer at a future meeting, with Shelley's indulgence. You could share examples of different types of meter from your own poems. And for those of us who
haven't been in a classroom in mumble-mumble years, you could define all those poetry terms, i.e., iamb, trochee, etc. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">I suppose I could just Google it, but I love to hear you wax poetic!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">Also, did I read that correctly? Are you working on an unrhymed poem? Now that's a surprise! Do share once you're done. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">Take care!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#575757">Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">-------- Original message --------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">From: Barbara HAMMEL via Stylist <<a href="mailto:stylist@nfbnet.org">stylist@nfbnet.org</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Date: 9/29/22 9:53 PM (GMT-05:00) <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">To: <a href="mailto:stylist@nfbnet.org">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Cc: Barbara HAMMEL <<a href="mailto:poetlori8@msn.com">poetlori8@msn.com</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Subject: [Stylist] Some Poetry Trivia
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm reading a book I downloaded from Bookshare called Writing Metrical Poetry. It's right up my alley because the author says that in order for a poet to break all the rules, he/she should be well-versed in the traditional forms.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Some things I have gleaned that will now stick is how to remember which syllables are accented in which feet, here are the four common ones: iamb "the heart", trochee "heartless", anapest "in the heart", dactyl "heartlessly". <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thus far I have written a poem in common meter, which is first and third lines in iambic tetrameter and second and fourth lines in iambic trimeter — think hymns. But where hymns usually have an abab rhyme this quatrain could be abcb. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm currently working on a blank verse poem. For this particular assignment, given in the book, it has to be 20 lines. Blank verse is unrhymed lines of imambic pentameter. (Some website lied to me a number of years ago and told me it was
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<p class="MsoNormal">I can't wait to see what else I get to practice in this book. If I don't get through it by November, I'll may be writing some of these poems with my November Poem-a-day challenges. If you want to try your hand at that quatrain, the actual
assignment was to read Stephen Vincent Benet's Daniel Boone and write your quatrain in imitation of that poem about a person of myth or a real person preferably who lived before 1900. And you're supposed to keep sarcasm and satire out of it. Those weren't
the words the author used but I forget what they were, it might have been humor.
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