Kipling

[abu nuwas]

Thanks for reading but I just don’t get your comparison with music, the poem is in free verse not rhyme and the only musical reference is a very small one and has little to do with the content.

Perhaps you can be a touch clearer.

Lucidity is not my forte, unfortunately. Poetry, of whatever sort, has available to it a number of useful helps in its tool-box. Your talk of being straight-forward rather suggested to me that you were reluctant to open the lid. If you pursue this, you end up with prose, written out in a funny way. I don't know where academics come in: some are very good poets with teaching jobs. Some, in my experience, seem to be either insane or frauds. But why worry about such a tiny group?

Free verse, of course, is not without rules. I hope that muddies things for you...