Blank Verse Blog Week

[rhu]

Oh, right, it's Blank Verse Blog Week once again,
When many people write their posts like this
To honor William Shakespeare for the week
When falls his natal anniversary.

I've done this twice before, and looking back
I find it makes my posts less readable.
And since the point of blogging's to be read,
And not just to show off our cleverness,
I think, this year, I'll post in prose instead.

Comments

[cellio]

I think, this year, I'll post in prose instead.

Thank you. Perhaps I am simply an am ha-aretz or something, but "blank verse" always strikes me simply as "wrote prose and injected random whitespace". I don't see the art or craft in it; all it does is make the content harder to read. Structured poetry can be quite nice, but "blank" or "free" verse, to me, is a hurdle without off-setting good.

[jadelennox]

actually, blank verse is very structured -- you are thinking of free verse. Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter. Shakespeare wrote in blank verse.

[cellio]

Thank you for the correction. I didn't pick up the meter here. (Once I do I have trouble excising the "da-DAH da-DAH" thing from my brain so I can read the content again. :-) )

[jadelennox]

I thank you for this one off try. One post
Alone is still a blank verse bit and makes me smile.

[introverte.livejournal.com]

He used to talk like this, purposely to drive me nuts.