[CSundstrom]

Woot go poetry in 2009!

I just handed up my mini-major work for extension one (to see if we can go onto EX2). I did poetry! And I love it.

Well to create a dactylic rhythmic pattern you have to have each line in dimeter.
Have you read "Charge of the Lightbrigade" by Tennyson? That has a dactylic rhythm.

You have to decide how form (in this case the rhythm) will reflect your purpose.

You might want to be carefull as a dactylic rhythmic pattern connotes a descent or fall. (two stressed to two unstressed...)

Think about it. The best poems have their purposes expressed in their forms.Think "Tears, Idle Tears" which is a poem by Tennyson. The rhythm in the name connotes a heartbeat.
You get?
Free verse and enjambment go together very well. But thats if you have a purpose like "the evanescence of life" where each line would flow on to the next, with ephemeral ease.
Have fun with it!