#2: May 20th 2012 at 2:07:49 AM
I don't see why you'd feel silly using more traditional meters. Plenty of modern poets write sonnets, sestinas, etc. If you want a wide range to choose from, find a dictionary of verse and look until you find something that suits you.
Also, this is slightly off-topic, but I've seen plenty of free verse that creates a great effect from the positions of the accented syllables. In general, I think free verse suffers from a mistaken opinion that "it's just prose split up in shorter lines" and True Art Is Incomprehensible.
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I was wondering... throughout history, many different metrics were invented to write poetry. Then came modern, "free poetry" that did away with those constrains, for the sake of unbridled expression.
But I feel that metrics were sort of the whole fun, fitting new words into a constrictive, complicated, unnatural form. Going back to the old metrics might feel a little silly and affected, so I was wondering, are there any new metrics out there to play with? Rigid stuff that you have to work your words around?
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