08-05-2012, 09:22 AM
i ficking hate meter, that was an accidental typo 
but i seriously hate it, i'm also not to keen on rhyme when it's got to be tied in to a set meter, but i only hate them because i find them hard; a chore or a task that i force myself to do. the truth is, when done properly they are beautiful things to behold. who can say they don't like Byron's "she walks in beauty"
when i use meter and rhyme i usually screw up...but i screw up less and less, or more and more depending on the technical side of it. but what i do get from it is a bit of satisfaction. the rhyming sestina i did wasn't great by a long shot and i should have paid more attention to the meter, but time made me rush in order to get a poem on the boards, but it was worth it, a bit of a gold medal really
doing made me realise that i have to pay more attention to detail. that i have to leave it a short while and look at it with fresh eyes before posting it. I should have spotted most if not all of the problems before i posted the thing. but that's one of the reason's why we have a workshop. i'm lazy by nature and doing such tasks (and it is a real task and not a labour of love) train me to be more vigilant, to take more notice of what i write. that transfers over to other forms i do enjoy such as Haiku (which often gets the same kid of ridicule as meter and rhyme) skill, craft or whatever you want to call it is something that can always be improved upon till it's time to lose your marbles. poetry craft is about poetry, not just non rhyming or non metered stuff. (free verse, not blank verse which does use meter) rhymes don't always come at the end of line, they can happen within a line, do we therefore shun internal rhyme? i do believe if you can't write a reasonable metered poem that rhymes, you'll probably have trouble writing a free verse poem. if you just don't like and don't want to write meter and rhymed poetry but can then fair dos but to dismiss it as shit underfoot seems a bit like an it guy dismissing the wheel
but i seriously hate it, i'm also not to keen on rhyme when it's got to be tied in to a set meter, but i only hate them because i find them hard; a chore or a task that i force myself to do. the truth is, when done properly they are beautiful things to behold. who can say they don't like Byron's "she walks in beauty"when i use meter and rhyme i usually screw up...but i screw up less and less, or more and more depending on the technical side of it. but what i do get from it is a bit of satisfaction. the rhyming sestina i did wasn't great by a long shot and i should have paid more attention to the meter, but time made me rush in order to get a poem on the boards, but it was worth it, a bit of a gold medal really
doing made me realise that i have to pay more attention to detail. that i have to leave it a short while and look at it with fresh eyes before posting it. I should have spotted most if not all of the problems before i posted the thing. but that's one of the reason's why we have a workshop. i'm lazy by nature and doing such tasks (and it is a real task and not a labour of love) train me to be more vigilant, to take more notice of what i write. that transfers over to other forms i do enjoy such as Haiku (which often gets the same kid of ridicule as meter and rhyme) skill, craft or whatever you want to call it is something that can always be improved upon till it's time to lose your marbles. poetry craft is about poetry, not just non rhyming or non metered stuff. (free verse, not blank verse which does use meter) rhymes don't always come at the end of line, they can happen within a line, do we therefore shun internal rhyme? i do believe if you can't write a reasonable metered poem that rhymes, you'll probably have trouble writing a free verse poem. if you just don't like and don't want to write meter and rhymed poetry but can then fair dos but to dismiss it as shit underfoot seems a bit like an it guy dismissing the wheel