

Metre Learning GuideSo. Metre. It has become a dirty word in some poetry circles. It conjures images of withered, grey-haired men laboriously counting out beats and stresses whilst coughing up phlegm because of all the dust in their cramped and quasi-arcane libraries.Metre Learning Guide
It really isn't all THAT bad, trust me.
So, without getting too 'old-man' technical - What is metre? what is it good for? And, importantly, how does one use it?
Well, let's see if we can come up with some workable and easily understood answers by the end of this.
#1: What is metre?
Technical Language: The most
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a tremulous yawn to rouse her trees, the city awakens;
hush of night wanly surrenders to serenades ... a lark’s swelling chatter; —weather predicting
legions of Early Risers
greet the morning sober with dreams of sleep; —schedules keeping, (those poor souls)
school-children, ambling in their sweet daze, hopeful of Nature’s favor ask; does it snow? does it rain?
the sounds of progress invade my urban hamlet and hollow,
hasten a pulse, low and increasing
from the window I consider your
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