Read this essay (and see the poems) on Substack!

Poems discussed:

"The Rhodora" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In the Desert" by Herman Melville (my Melville essay)

"Lucifer in Starlight" by George Meredith

"Cold-Blooded Creatures" by Elinor Wylie

"The Animals" by Edwin Muir

"Sunt Leones" by Stevie Smith (Fayne's essay)

"Beyond the Demonic Element" by Harvey Shapiro

"Nothing in Heaven Functions as it Ought" by X.J. Kennedy

"Halloween" by Gjertrud Schnackenberg (see also SLEERICKETS #2)

"The Beautiful Animal" by Geoffrey Brock

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My favorite poetry podcasts for:
Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets
Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says
The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight

Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
Art by David Anthony Klug

List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Read this essay at The Sonneteer!

Sonnet types discussed:

The Sicilian: ABAB ABAB, CDC DCD

The Italian: ABBA ABBA, CDC DCD

The English: ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG

The French: ABAB, CDCD, EEF, GGF

The Spenserian: ABAB, BCBC, CDCD, EE

The Miltonic: Italian, with enjambment, delayed volta, and non-courtly/erotic content

The Meredithian: ABBA, CDDC, EFFE, GHHG

The Pushkin: aBaB, ccDD, eFFe, GG

The Hilbertian: ABC ABC, DEF DEF, GG

The Terza Rima: ABA, BCB, CDC, DED, EE

The Hybrid: Various. Ex: ABBA ABBA, CDCD, EE

The Caudate: Various. Usually Italian, plus cauda (tail)

The Curtal: Various. Sestet plus “super-quatrain” (quatrain + hemistich)

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My favorite poetry podcasts for:
Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets
Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says
The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight

Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
Art by David Anthony Klug

List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

-Read this essay on Substack!

-What is meter?

-10 Reasons to write in meter

-Kinds of meter (Accentual, Syllabic, Parellelist, Quantitative, Accentual-Syllabic)

-Kinds of feet (Iamb, Trochee, Anapest, Amphibrach, Dactyl)

-“Junk” by Richard Wilbur

-“Considering the Snail” by Thom Gunn

-KJV Psalm 23

-Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare

-“The Tyger” by William Blake

-“The Destruction of Sennacherib” by Lord Byron

-“O Where Are You Going?” by W.H. Auden

-Evangeline, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“To An Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman

-Speech stress vs. Relative stress (accent)

-The importance of “framing” in scansion

-Rhythmic modulation

-Common substitutions (feminine endings, reversed feet, acephalous lines)

-“All the Fun’s In How You Say A Thing” by Timothy Steele

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My favorite poetry podcasts for:
Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets
Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says
The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight

Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
Art by David Anthony Klug

List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)