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Keir
@8dawntreader8.bsky.social
Lifelong Londoner
Drawn to the weird, strange and colourful
Shakespeare and Poe fanatic
Expert on poetic meter and Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Intro to meter, with further links: https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-use-2-syllable-words-in-iambic-pentameter/answer/
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow…

#scansion
April 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
My Cousin Vit
by Gwendolyn Brooks
#Scansion
March 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
And of course #Farage has his own meme coin.

Who falls for this kind of grift? It’s surreal.
February 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
A snapshot of super early balloon travel!
February 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
SELF BURIAL (TELEVISION INTERFERENCE PROJECT)
by Keith Arnatt
1969
January 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
If you see this, post a pic from your device with no explanation
January 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Gorgeous young female black tiger. A genetic mutation unique to the 27 strong, and incredibly elusive, Similipal population in eastern India.
January 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Couple of points here.

Many bad faith commentators dishonestly conflate advocation for the dismantling of an apartheid state with advocation for a genocide of Israeli Jews.

As for “not most Israelis“, in May, when the genocide was well under way, only 4% of Israeli Jews thought it excessive.
January 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Christmas: 1924
by Thomas Hardy
#poetry #Hardy #tetrameter #couplets
January 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
December 25, 2024 at 2:35 AM
Goodnight, Mir. That’s a very cool fate prediction The Cave of Trophonius gave you! I wish I’d got that one!
November 27, 2024 at 11:58 PM
Containment perfectly conveyed by a distinctive rhyme scheme.

The Kind Ghosts
by Wilfred Owen
#poetry #WarPoetry #WilfredOwen #rhyme
November 16, 2024 at 2:35 PM
#Poetry question! Can anyone think of any other poems where the last *sentence* is a #spondee? Just two syllables, both stressed?

The first poem here is by #WilfredOwen
November 15, 2024 at 8:18 PM
I’d never heard of coffee & pumpkin cake - but it’s a great combination!
November 4, 2024 at 11:33 AM
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August 20, 2024 at 1:41 AM
Odilon Redon’s spiders
#OdilonRedon #Spiders #Art
August 10, 2024 at 10:39 AM
The Victory Ball
by Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)
#poetry #WarPoetry #TheGreatWar continued ——>
August 9, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Some punchy, short lined First World War poems

Armageddon
by Leon Gellert (1892-1977)

August 1914
by Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)

Waste
by George ‘AE’ Russell (1867-1935)

War
by Mary Gilmore (1865-1962)

#poetry #WarPoetry #TheGreatWar continued ——>
August 9, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Bantams in Pine-Woods
by Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
#poetry #WallaceStevens
August 8, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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August 6, 2024 at 5:38 PM
In the mid 1600s Dutch painter Otto Marseus van Schrieck (1613-1678) invented a whole new genre: the forest floor still life, or “sottobosco”. /1
#Art #DutchGoldenAge #Sottobosco
August 6, 2024 at 11:36 AM