Scansion

[scribblemyname]

So I was just talking with hiddencait the other day about scanning poetry metrically and syllabically and now I have to do it. I forgot how painful it can be.

I was flipping between iambs and trochees with the occasional anapest or dactyl for good measure and willy nilly between tetrameter and pentameter. The only thing I'd settle on was trimeter for the last line of each stanza.

:headdesk:

I think I'm going about this all wrong. Poetry isn't the thing like prose, where I get it down and then I can make something of it. No, I have to get something good down and tweak or get it down all over again. It took seven tries to get "Name Me." Of course, that poem was also pages long.

Comments

[hiddencait.livejournal.com]

It really can be painful!

[scribblemyname]

So painful.

:shakes head sadly:

[scribblemyname]

I ended up going syllabic.