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A poets life full of joy and sorrow,
First the pain heartfelt and long; then the gain.
Starting with poet's deadline tomorrow,
Our story begins and all unravels.
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His idea strikes, will it work or not,
Best be putting pen to paper, but wait,
What are syllables and metre? He's fraught.
What about vowels, consonants and things?
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Tools for novice and pro poet may use;
He picks his form and structure, now the view
Or picture he wishes to paint. His muse
Now lets him write, or her, his lines begin.
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Such, beholds he the magic rhyme giving time,
This belongs in the line. A choice and voice.
I will build a stanza, I hear three fine,
Normative, quantative, variable.
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But what about my syllables in feet;
What is measure? A scansion debate.
Many to choose, how they must keep the beat;
Where's the secret in those soft's or stresses ... ?
"Poet cries now alive: see chapter two ... "
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