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Quiescent, by Suzette Richards – image generated 23 April 2023
Triadic-line poetry
William Carlos Williams tried to find an answer to the struggle of the open form/free verse which he felt lacked some element of structure. He introduced the ‘variable foot’, a metrical device to resolve the conflict between form and freedom of verse. The lines are syllabic but not uniform in metre, as they are more commonly defined as having a single arc (a phrase that encapsulates a core element) per line.