06-09-2011, 01:14 PM
Meter IS music. If you can't sing it, it's not metric (of course, if you can sing it, it's still not necessarily metric -- just that if you can't it's not, which makes perfect sense in my head!)
Enjambment often helps to get rid of that chiming effect that end-rhyme can sometimes have. Good rhyme should be unobtrusive and never detract from the poem, but help to drive the sound of it, which is why meter is so important: to make sure the rhymes fall in the right places and don't "clunk"
Enjambment often helps to get rid of that chiming effect that end-rhyme can sometimes have. Good rhyme should be unobtrusive and never detract from the poem, but help to drive the sound of it, which is why meter is so important: to make sure the rhymes fall in the right places and don't "clunk"
It could be worse