In my first book for children, "A is for Arnyx: An Alphabet in Verse," I set out to write a book of children's poetry, that would not only be fun to read aloud, but which would allow me to experiment with meter and verse forms, a long-time interest if mine.
From time to time on this blog, I will post verse that continue that tradition. This is the first of a series:
Meter is the basic rhythmic structure of aa line of verse. In English, it is usually described in terms of stressed and unstressed syllables, and categorized with off-putting archaic names In this post, I am playing with the anapest, a portion of a line a verse ( called a foot) that consists of two unstressed syllables, followed by a stressed syllable.
Anna:pest
Anna ever was known as a pest;
She would give all her friends little rest.
She'd invite them to dine,
With no chance to decline,
Or to plead other plans.
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