The Blank Verse Challenge (Practice IP with me)

[wasellajam]

Recently returning to the Pen and reading so many great poems I was inspired to see if I could still write any poem at all. Having nothing I urgently needed to say I looked around the house and randomly picked something to write about. Insanely, I attempted a sonnet but it quickly became apparent my spinning head could not think about meter, rhyme and schemes all at the same time. Milo was kind enough to suggest Blank verse.

Blank Verse:
Lines of iambic pentameter

daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM

No rhymes, any amount of lines, just 5 iambs per line:

daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM

Great idea! I've noticed some other members mentioning that they have difficulty with meter so I'm hoping some of you will join me in my attempt to relearn this. I'm also hoping that some members with a firm handle on meter will jump in and let us know where we're off. I know I can convince myself I'm hearing it correctly when the rest of the world hears it differently (correctly), so I doubt correcting each other would be effective.

I'm not aiming for brilliance here. The goal is to write 2-20 lines of iambic pentameter about anything as many times as we need to for it to come more easily. I remember it being fun and I'd like that back.

Here's the link to Basic Meter by Leanne
 https://www.pigpenpoetry.com/thread-12022.html