The Blank Verse Challenge (Practice IP with me)

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I just confessed to the holy conclave
a Pope I'm not even on devine good days.
Smoking drinking chasing the hours we have.
Having issues being picked on by women in mass.
Assigned purpose I'll take a fucking pass.
Figure it out as I tear off this cross.
I'll head to the water and wash my filth off.

I've never understood how the stressed and unstressed syllables work. Did I do this right?

Hi, Bunx, thanks for taking on a new skill. Start with looking at the first 2 feet of each line, if you get those right it will be easier to make adjustments.

Now, if I'm wrong on these hopefully someone will come along to school us.

 i JUST conFESSED 
a POPE I'm NOT
SMOKing DRINKing
HAVing ISsues

You can see the first two start with an unstressed syllable filled by a stressed one. The next 2 lines start with a stressed syllable followed by unstressed.
For our purposes the first 2 are correct, the second two are incorrect. It really is worth working on because once that rhythm gets in your head it comes easily, it gets stuck in there. It just came back to me after years of not writing at all. There's an Important Thread in the workshops called Basic Meter by Leanne, I'd bet she explains it more clearly than I do. I sometimes google Pronounce (word I'm questioning). Keep at it, you'll get.

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I've never understood how the stressed and unstressed syllables work. Did I do this right?

Only stressed syllables work, the other ones are too lazy.
And take comfort, Shakespeare played fast and loose as well.

ha, I couldn't pick a Great Poem example because so many loopholes are acceptable, any example just confused the matter.

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