Prosody Of Free Verse Poem by Xelam Kan™

Prosody Of Free Verse



Often see in poetry council
an innocent quarry,
is Free verse is realy verse or merely prose chopped into lines?
and what might be its Meter?
beats of ten, nine or a couplet rhymes;
or any other pattern undefined?
Notion of Free verse is:
alien to many more and would mystify the numbers,
as in poetic persuasion
there is ubiquitous influence of Romance and ballad 'convention,
-beats, meter and in stress-
in which we often confess,
but have seen
from Chaucer to Morlow
and from Pop to Pound
something keep stirring our minds.
So is the Free verse;
no certain form or melodic structure
and is less conform to a classic culture.
yet metrical feet may garland
our 'verso libre 'but not a
metrical lineation,
or a whole composition.
such verse could be turned as a quagmire
if its 'cadence' is not admire.
As Prosody
is strongly agonist to any 'missing-measures-
'tis another form of rhythmic pleasure.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
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*based on 'the review'of Hartman's essay on free verse by X (sorry forget the writer name) ....
*might not fully grasped the contents of the paper but anyway sharing my humble understanding on the subject
*Missing measures' is used by Timothy Steele'
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Dimitrios Galanis 17 January 2016

You seem to me to be a great scholar my dear.So wisely penned.

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Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi 31 January 2014

as long as has the meaning to play with the heart...Thank you for sharing..

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