Singing School: Learning to Write (And Read) Poetry by Studying With the Masters by Robert Pinsky

Author:Robert Pinsky [Pinsky, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poems, Poetry, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Educational
ISBN: 9780393240702
Google: _b1uewuJcDoC
Amazon: 0393348970
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-08-04T23:00:00+00:00

A few drops fell upon my face

and in my eyes, so I could see

(or, in that black space, thought I saw)

that each drop contained a light,

a small, illuminated scene;

the weed-deflected stream was made

itself of racing images.

Ben Jonson stretching sentences across lines of very different lengths, crazily varying, in “My Picture Left in Scotland” (p. 88):

I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind,

For else it could not be,

That she,

Whom I adore so much, should so slight me,

And cast my love behind:

I’m sure my language to her, was as sweet,

And every close did meet

In sentence, of as subtle feet,

As hath the youngest he,

That sits in shadow of Apollo’s tree.

Robert Frost, in “To Earthward” (p. 98), separating iambic pentameter’s three-foot and two-foot units and arranging them into a four-line stanza of three, three, three, two, which creates overlapping pentameters at the borders of each stanza. So, for instance, “I lived on air” serves as the second part of one pentameter (And once that seemed too much; I lived on air) and the first part of another (I lived on air / That crossed me from sweet things):

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