EgregiousJellybean t1_j1zm9n8 wrote on December 28, 2022 at 4:15 PM

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Absolutely. You’ve articulated it much better than I could. I believe that good poetry needs meter (of some sort, though not as consistent as the Romantics’ adherence to meter or of course Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter).

Liwet_SJNC t1_j1zyl1o wrote on December 28, 2022 at 5:37 PM

I tend to prefer poetry with metre too, but free verse is popular now, and doesn't always stick to a metre. You get things like Marianne Moore's 'Poetry' that just don't have any metre at all, or TS Elliott's 'The Waste Land' that flirts with lots of metres but is ultimately faithful to none of them.

EgregiousJellybean t1_j1zzr5z wrote on December 28, 2022 at 5:45 PM

See, I love Eliot’s use of meter because he is very precisely economical with it; rather than consistent adherence to meter (like the great poets whom he viewed as his literary predecessors), he uses meter for effect. I haven’t read the waste land in a while, but I quite enjoyed Four Quartets in part due to his deliberate use of meter.