Versecraft
Versecraft
Scansion Is Boring! feat. David Klug
Topics discussed in this episode include:
-Why poetry?
-Poetry vs. Music
-David vs. Versecraft
-My "What Is Art?" episode
-The Case For Meter and Rhyme Part I
-The Case For Meter and Rhyme Part II
-The Case Against Versecraft by Matt Wall
-"Cain" by Lord Byron
-"Empedocles On Etna" by Matthew Arnold
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My favorite poetry podcasts for:
Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets
Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says
The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight
Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
Art by David Anthony Klug
List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)