WALLS

It is not difficult to rhyme:

You let the feet all run along

And in a very little time

You have a thing that’s like a song.

But, when you attempt free

Verse - where do you dis-

Sect the lines? Should

Your weight fall on

This foot, or on

That?

Traditional verse is like a wall

Built by a brick upon a brick

With rhyme to save it from a fall

And if it’s done well it is slick.

It takes practice to

Weigh, stone against stone,

So that its own weight

Makes a dry-stone dyke

Stand. That is free verse.

Allow me a diversion.  If you write verse the writing of verse is fascinating, and it's a theme in itself.  Here's one, and I'll maybe have a few more this week.