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Re:America's Great Poet of Darkness: A Reconsideration of Ro... by ajkjk on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @01:01PM (#39919946)
I dunno anything about poetry but the meter of that poem bugs me. Why not "from hemlock tree"? there are like random extra syllables.
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Re:America's Great Poet of Darkness: A Reconsideration of Ro... by browningstreet on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @01:03PM (#39919974)
> The way a crow

> Shook down on me

> The dust of snow

> From a hemlock tree

a.. on.. of.. a

Also, it's all colloquial, "From hemlock tree" isn't how we speak.

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Re:America's Great Poet of Darkness: A Reconsideration of Ro... by Jtsummers on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @01:06PM (#39920022)
It's 4/4/4/6 syllables and ABAB rhyming. The second verse, first line, is 4 syllables if you pronounce "given" more as "g'ven", smashing the g into the v.
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Re:America's Great Poet of Darkness: A Reconsideration of Ro... by ksenzee on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @02:10PM (#39920886)
Poetry in English is usually less about syllables and more about stressed syllables.
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