! Hypersyllabic Lyric With Catalexis (For Mary Oliver) Poem by Michael Shepherd

! Hypersyllabic Lyric With Catalexis (For Mary Oliver)



There’s budding in the springtime;
fruiting in the fall;
flowering in the summertime;
but winter comes to all..

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Michael Shepherd 13 December 2007

Lyrics such as this raise a question for poetry teachers: should we see them as metred, or eight-to-a-bar... or both?

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Robert Howard 13 December 2007

Very true, concise and very nicely seasoned.

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Michael Shepherd

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Marton, Lancashire
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