Nail on the head, me boyo! I was going to say as much, but he beat me to it. Kid - don't try to over-analyze the sound of the poem or what have you. Just try to read it normally, as if it were prose - and then it should fall into a rhythm of its own accord.
Or, worse comes to worse, you can try reading it as iambic tetra/pentameter, which will DEFINITELY show you it's NOT iambic.
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Date: 2005-10-05 05:43 am (UTC)Or, worse comes to worse, you can try reading it as iambic tetra/pentameter, which will DEFINITELY show you it's NOT iambic.
One BRIGHT day IN the MIDle OF the NIGHT.
--Jeff