Ranting Again
\nby cricketjeff on July 18, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nWhat’s the matter with writing in meter
\nOr rhyming that actually rhymes
\nWhen poetry always sounds sweeter
\nIf you are adept at those “crimes”<\/p>\n
I know that it’s not always needed
\nAnd free verse can be simply great
\nBut when these old fashions are heeded
\nThen writing achieves a new state<\/p>\n
My meter’s too even they’ve told me
\nI need to include rhymes that don’t
\nBut I do not mind that they scold me
\nI’ve told all these fools that I won’t<\/p>\n
Pluperfect’s the target for me
\nAny less and it’s not poetry!<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nPah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ranting Again by cricketjeff on July 18, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved What’s the matter with writing in meter Or rhyming that actually rhymes When poetry always sounds sweeter If you are adept at those “crimes” I know that it’s not always needed And free verse can be simply great But when these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9738,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4673","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6835,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4673\/revisions\/6835"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}