Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.

W.H. Auden

Tags: poetry prosody meter

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Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily against the pin. Now the meter broke.

Neil Gaiman

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