Re: Leaving Santiago

Vera wrote:

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Colin Ward wrote:


This quote from "Leaving Santiago" popped up on another venue:



We stretch out our lives, like brief lines with ellipses,
and swallow each speech like a snake oil potion.
We live in a country of cowards and corpses;
both float down the river en route to the ocean.


And peas and potatoes are destined to wait
for the pie that will be added to their plate.


Trips. Not off the tongue...


This poem combines two of the rarest forms that we will see in modern
English language poetry.

Question: What are those two forms?


The ballade and the anapestic octameter couplet.
Of course, the obvious quatrain is the rarest form seen in
"modern" poetry.

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