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18 December 2004. I played some more with the poem I've so far posted two versions of. Haven't been about to make anything good out of it yet. Meanwhile, a minor thought occurred to me after Michael Snider opined in a New-Poetry post that avoiding inversions in rhymed metrical verse is easy. I say that not only is it not easy to avoid inversions or the equivalent in rhymed metrical verse, but that the difficulty of doing so (for pay-offs much smaller than one can get with better devices) is a main reason that serious poets rarely compose such verse. By "equivalent," I mean going out of meter, near-rhymes, grammatical solecisms like wrong verb tense or number, and obvious padding. King Shakespeare does such things all the time (even if we agree that some of the rhymes he made that sound poor to us were correct in his time). Sometime, I'll compile some examples of his inversions and inversion-equivalents. Take my word for it, though, there are more than a few.
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