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I dunno anything about poetry but the meter of that poem bugs me. Why not "from hemlock tree"? there are like random extra syllables.
by ajkjk 3y ago
I dunno anything about poetry but the meter of that poem bugs me. Why not "from hemlock tree"? there are like random extra syllables.
- browningstreet 3y ago> 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.
- Jtsummers 3y agoIt'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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- ksenzee 3y agoPoetry in English is usually less about syllables and more about stressed syllables.