Advice to the Would-Be Meterman
\nby cricketjeff on February 12, 2012.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nI’m sometimes asked for help with rhyme and meter;
\n“I need my words to fit but there’s no way,
\nI’ve penned my thoughts but how can they sound sweeter
\nYet still portray the things I need to say?”<\/p>\n
If they’re your thoughts it’s not my place to change them,
\nBut thoughts aren’t words and English is your friend.
\nPick up your words and try to rearrange them –
\nOur language is a wand that loves to bend.<\/p>\n
Ignore those fools who say “avoid the fillers”,
\nAn idle syllable is not a curse.
\nIt’s hardened thoughts that are the wanton killers
\nOf flowing prose that dreams of being verse.<\/p>\n
Some altered words, a subtle change of tense,
\nThe sounds can change without a change of sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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