Edwin Morgan (b.

1920)

Siesta of a Hungarian Snake

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Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

Six Variations (part III)

Shlup, shlup, the dog

As it laps up

Water

Makes intelligent

Music, resting

Now and then the take breath in irregular

measure

Taniguchi Buson (1715-1783)

The piercing chill I feel

The piercing chill I feel:

My dead wifes comb, in our bedroom,

Under my heel .......

Leonard Cohen (b. 1934)

All there is to know about Adolph Eichmann

Eyes: ..................................................................... Medium

Hair: ..................................................................... Medium

Weight: ..................................................................... Medium

Height: ..................................................................... Medium

Distinguishing features: ........................................... None

Number of fingers: .................................................. Ten

Number of toes: ...................................................... ten

Intelligence: ............................................................ Medium

What did you expect?

Talons?

Oversize incisors?

Green saliva?

Madness?
TRAGEDI WINKA & SIHKA (Sutardji Calsoum Bahri)

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Ray Young Bear (b. 1950)

Grandmother

If i were to see

Her shape from a mile away

Id know so quickly

That it would be her.

T.E. Hulme (1883-1917)

Image

Old houses were scaffolding once

And workmen whistling.

Rhyme

anaphora [ nffr]
noun
1. repetition for effect: the use of the same word or phrase at the beginning of several successive clauses,
sentences, lines, or verses, usually for emphasis or rhetorical effect.
"She didn't speak. She didn't stand. She didn't even look up when we came in" is an example of anaphora.
(formal)

2. referring back: reference to a word or phrase used earlier, especially to avoid repeating the word or phrase
by replacing it with something else such as a pronoun.
In the sentence "I told Paul to close the door and he did so," the clause "he did so" makes use of anaphora.

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Rhythm

Meter pattern of stressed (accented) sound

Metrical feet

1. Iambic (foot: - ) the most common pattern in English speech and poetry
- - - - - - -
The fall ing out Of faith ful friends re new ing is of love
My heart Is like A sing -ing bird

2. Anapestic (foot: - - )

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I am mon Arch of all I sur vey
There are man -y who say That a dog Has his day

3. Trochaic (foot: -)

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Dou ble Dou ble Toil and Trou ble
We were very Tired, We were Very merry

4. Dactylic (foot: - -) commonly in light verse or verse suggesting joy.

- - - -
Take her up Ten der ly

5. Spondaic (foot: ) most often used as a substitute for an iambic or trochee

- - -
Smart lad, to Slip betimes a way
 Foot Name
Monometer (one foot)
Dimeter
Trimester
Tetrameter
Pentameter
Hexameter
Heptameter
Octameter

Scansion analysis of the metrical structure

Rhythm

A ball will bounce, but less and less

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now

Is hung with bloom along the bough

Thou didst so punish sinne

That I became
Most thinne.
With thee
Let me combine
And feel this day thy victorie . . .

Success is counted sweetest

By those who neer succeed
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

Fit for choirs where Rotten

Not miles bare ruined grape fruit

At the front door hidden in tall as it ran light

Intervene of a love never believed

Loveliest slow as a useful to

As i came to the edge of the woods (Robert frost)

The summer thunder, like a wooden bell (Louise Bogan)