The Student

[penguin]

Thanks, Leanne. The poem was prompted when I entered the bedroom of one of my daughters a while back. Rhythm ought to be the area of poetry where most agreement is reached - in that it's kind of mathematical, measurable. But exactly the opposite is the case!People do see and hear things very differently. I'm quite taken by "empirical", it's smoother off the tongue, so I may well use that.