Confessions of Poetry Witch: Matriarchy, Meters, & Magic

Confessions of Poetry Witch: Matriarchy, Meters, & Magic

East/Meters

Is Meter "Romantic"? Is it Uncertain?

Re-visiting the Romantic Canon

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Annie Finch
Feb 11, 2025
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A review I’d published years ago popped up in my emails today for some reason. It took me by surprise. Back then, I hadn’t settled so clearly as I have now on meter as a key fulcrum for poetic change. Maybe that’s why the pattern I now see doesn’t seem to have occurred to me. But now I can’t avoid it.

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