Obviously.
I found another meme, monthly this time, which might be interesting in so far as it’s been a long time since I wrote any poetry. It’s called Poetic Voices and this month’s challenge is to write a grossblank. I shall have a go, I think, but got a bit hung up on the definition of the grossblank – as written by the “inventor” and quoted on Poetic Voices:
It’s very simple: 12 lines of 12 syllables each, iambic pentameter, unrhymed, any format.
“Iambic pentameter”, of course, comes tripping off the tongue if you’ve been working with the sonnet form, but that’s not really an excuse – “penta” means “five”, “iambic” feet are two syllables long (short-long) “iambic pentameter” is therefore 2×5=10 syllables. It’s pretty basic. The form’s inventor, to give him credit, gets it right in the first attempt at the top of the page (“It’s blank verse, but with 12 syllables per line instead of ten. Twelve lines, iambic meter, unrhymed, any format” – my emphasis), the description I quote is obviously a typo, but why does Poetic Voices blithely quote it?
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