https://specstories.substack.com/p/versification-a-guide-to-crafting

* Versification: Crafting #Poetry *

At the heart of this intricate art lies #versification, a meticulous #craft that breathes life into #poetic #compositions. Versification, as a dynamic and evolving #art form, provides endless opportunities for #creative expression.

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My Signature Move

When writing poems or playing bass
I utilize both time and space
To give my voices power to speak.
I always use the same technique:
It doesn’t matter whether I’m
Composing yet another rhyme
Or jamming on a funky groove…
The Octave is my signature move.

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Although I love the anapest,
The iamb’s where I do my best.
My syllables of sixty-four
Make perfect squares. But sometimes more
And sometimes less will do just fine,
As long as there’s four beats per line.
After all—they’re just tools…
And I can bend my own damn rules.

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Rhyme is Dead

She reassured me, it was fine
For me to measure out each line,
But not to always rhyme their endings.
Yet how could I deny my tendings?
Continuing to play the sport,
I made a point to keep them short.
But still her voice inside my head
Says, “Poe killed rhyme. Rhyme is dead!”

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