| Re: Help in the use of Meter
Yes, i think that Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade is a sublime poem.
Dimeter, hey? I was thinking possibly tetrameter (just because i'm not sure how much i can say in only 6 syllables!).
Denotes a fall (as in the descent into "the Valley of Death"?). This could be suitable for my theme (which is about the fall of empires).
Thanks for your advice: it has been most insightful
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“All men on whom the higher nature has stamped the love of truth should especially concern themselves in labouring for posterity, in order that future generations may be enriched by their efforts, as they themselves were made rich by the efforts of generations past.”
Dante, De Monarchia
"Wherein the moralist design'd
A compliment on human kind:
For here he owns, that now and then
Beasts may degenerate into men"
Swift |