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I don’t distinguish here between
“rising” and “falling” meters; in other words, I count iambs and
trochees as the same, and anapests and dactyls as the same.
So the traditional English meters are simply
two-syllable and three-syllable meters.
Most of my poems are in two-syllable meters,
which of course dominate all English metrical poetry.
Rhythms which loosely mix two- and three-syllable feet are under “mixed”
(“logaoedic” is not exactly the right word).
Rhythms which are organized at a level larger than the metrical foot
are under
“sculpted”
or are associated with stanza types.
I haven’t tried to break out dipodic rhythms that alternate
primary and secondary stresses, but if you listen
closely you’ll find they exist too.
All poems under “free” are parodies.
accentual
Beauty
Down the Tubes
Gizzard
Homeland Security Advisory System
How to Be a Poet
free
Arc of the Ankle
In the Best Modern Way
Ninety-Nine Years of Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash
Pedestrian Elegy
Salutation to a Previous Generation
Weekly World News
mixed
Capitol Fever
Eating Song
General Advice to Miscreants
The One Count
Oompa Loompa Land Located in North Korea
Sapphic stanza
New Formalists
Sapphic-derived stanza
Red-Winged Blackbirds
sculpted
The End of History
Instructions from the Clan Chief
Layers
Seahorse Rocking Chair
Speak Now
Symmetry
Tsiolkovsky Outbound
syllabic
Exploding Haiku
Haiku Haiku
zilcrino
three-syllable
The Bailiwick’s Barnacle Bake
The Flying Dugong
The No Yes Song
On the Tower
The Placing of Blame
President Double-You
Susan Lynn Elliott
What Really Makes the World Go Around
two-syllable
1463.5
Advice to Participants in the Illegal Surveillance Programs
Afflatus
Alexander Pope Examines the RIP Bill
Ask Not For Whom the Thunder Rolls
The Ballad of Frightening Small Children, Or,
Better Loud Noises in the Night than Secret Police
Barbary
Be Not the First
Beauty has Teeth
Before a Fall
Building Jerusalem Where it Is Now
Cake
Catherine
Civil Debate
Climb Parnassus
The Closest Full Moon Since The Last Time This Happened
The Correct Way to Double the Toil and Trouble
Creation Myth
Cupertino
Death, Be Not Sad
Dream: The Roads of Colossi
Earth
End in Trash
Fatherland
Friday Evenings
How You Feel When You’re Middling Good
I Love U-235
I Write the Ads
Immortal Remains
Jesus Dance
Laser Corneal Ablation
Launch the Fireworks!
Literature Trivia
Loved and Lost
Mad Song
Metaphysical Poets Summarized
Metazoans are Heterotrophic
Mostly Works
Mutation and Recombination
Myanmar Shave
Near-Waking Experience
Net Work
New Formalist Manifesto, First Draft
New Formalist Manifesto, Second Draft
A Note to Artificial Language Designers
Obstruction of Justice
Oulipo in Summary
The Poetry ABC Song
Proposed New Air Force Motto
Religion and Science
Republican
Romanticism Summarized
Saint Valentine
Santa's Sleigh Ride at 1000 km/s
The Serbian Ethnic Cleansing Song
The Sink Is Full
The Sunset
That Big a Star
There Are Different Ways of Looking at Things
Tunisia Revolution
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
U.N. Resolution
Walk Off
A Water Drop
We Were Children
What They Do to Food Before Taking its Picture
Who Can Know?
Why Oh Why Don’t People Still Write This Way?
A Word to Matthew Arnold
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You Only Think You’re Confused
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