Poems/Prose Lyrics featured:
"The Eagles" by Jones Very
"The Oracles" by A.E. Housman
"An Equation" by Hyam Plutzik
"Plato and the Serpent" by Catherine Davis
"Crow's Theology" by Ted Hughes
"Changeling" by Rhina Espaillat
"Hardy" by Robert Mezey
"The Master of Metaphor" by Carl Dennis
"Lust" by J.D. McClatchy
"An Incident in the Sublime" by Wyatt Prunty
Poems/Prose Lyrics mentioned:
"Jones Very in the Parlor" by Brian Brodeur
"The Proverbs of Hell" by William Blake
"Antarctica" by Elijah Perseus Blumov
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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 (/ /)
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