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Poems discussed:
"The Rhodora" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In the Desert" by Herman Melville (my Melville essay)
"Lucifer in Starlight" by George Meredith
"Cold-Blooded Creatures" by Elinor Wylie
"The Animals" by Edwin Muir
"Sunt Leones" by Stevie Smith (Fayne's essay)
"Beyond the Demonic Element" by Harvey Shapiro
"Nothing in Heaven Functions as it Ought" by X.J. Kennedy
"Halloween" by Gjertrud Schnackenberg (see also SLEERICKETS #2)
"The Beautiful Animal" by Geoffrey Brock
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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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