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Frustration of An Exhausted Poet

I've tried to make words rhyme at the end of their stanzas, but rhyme wasn't too perfect for those impersonal stanzas, the Iambic pentameter was right, but it required rhyme for intensity, so rhyme didn't agree with Iambic pentameter in every verse; I paraphrased every stanza with a rephrase, but frustration stepped in with a must of an exact phrase, oh, can't a stanza rhyme with syllables without a count? Not exactly the rhyme of Terza Rima as in The Divine Comedy! Was Dante a perfect rhymer or an impulsive dreamer... while his love happily played the lyre? And did that lyre ever fail Beatrice so refulgent and proud? Or did lovely Beatrice break the lyre? Then again, vowels became consonants ironically, and vowels and consonants all out of idealism; and stressed and unstressed syllables created a strange idiom... of consonants and vowels spelling out eccentric idiopathy: the disease so unknown in literature, not idiocy, but idiopathy became idiosyncrasy...oh, you figure, reader!

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Date: 3/5/2010 11:12:00 PM
A good and funny write, dear Andrew! You poor exhausted guy, just do what ya do best! Luv, Andrea
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Date: 3/4/2010 10:06:00 AM
should you tie yourself in knots for perfection, when what matters are that the random thoughts in your head and heart reach the paper.....Great write though going to check your poetry out now lol ......Allie
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Date: 3/4/2010 7:58:00 AM
Really enjoyed this one, Andrew. I am always counting syllables and using the rhyming dictionary. And I like the way you called upon Dante as an example. You express so well some of the frustrations we face in trying to establish meter and rhyme! Great poem! Love, Carolyn
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Date: 3/4/2010 6:29:00 AM
Oh goodness ..no worrys...we all do what we do...and I almost never do as I should..but what ever the outcome I always see you brave style! Light & Love and hugs and NO worries over silly words!
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Date: 3/4/2010 12:54:00 AM
I dont pretend to understand any of it..I just wite. I love this..BG
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