So It Goes
Richard Montfort Cary 1942 (Medford MA)
So It Goes
Modern, as ‘twere, poetry,
Dare I say, puzzles
Me, the way a line must
Loop, illogically, to
The next, or
Indent without cause
Or reason or
Illumination of a
Dim lit thought
Of time or place or
Want to
Help a reader hear or
Listener see
The pulse of love,
Except, perchance,
To simulate an ee
Cummings for the sake of
Appearing so, without the
Exquisite balance of
Language teetering on the tongue,
and, what means this?,
not a cap to start a line!?,
and then, the couplets, without
Rhyme or
flow with mellifluous meter
grace and
charm,
Perhaps.
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Submitted by richard.cary on May 25, 2021
Modified on April 11, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | X AXXBCXCDXCBCAEXAEDEXXX XC XXXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 530 |
Words | 102 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 22, 2, 4 |
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