How important is music to your poetry?
I think music is inherent to not only my poetry, but poetry in general. Sound is one of the components that differentiates the genre. I fiddle with the meter, sometimes with rhyme, and I do a quick scansion at times to see if what I want to say is said in the way I want to say it. A poet without a good ear will usually produce tone-deaf poems. To say that scanning a poem for meter is a thing of the past is to say that poetry is a thing of the past. Or maybe I’m just old-fashioned and I just write old-fashioned poems.
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