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GA Writing Prompts - 53. Poetry Prompt # 4 - Meter 1

A recipe that's hard to spoil
Is strips of meat and garlic oil,
Tomatoes, black olives, and spice,
Sweet peppers, salt, and parboiled rice

Iambic tetrameter

Dolores Esteban
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Irritable1

Really nice piece! I counted it up, it is iambic tetrameter, and quite exact. I'm especially impressed by your perception of the two stresses in "recipe" and the neat pairing with the first "A." Not only that, but you take a word that's usually the stress-recipient, i.e. "that" and force it into an unstressed spot by placing it adjacent to "hard" which is even stronger in this line. Rhymed, too, so fancy! :)

Dolores Esteban
On 12/04/2014 07:30 AM, Irritable1 said:
Really nice piece! I counted it up, it is iambic tetrameter, and quite exact. I'm especially impressed by your perception of the two stresses in "recipe" and the neat pairing with the first "A." Not only that, but you take a word that's usually the stress-recipient, i.e. "that" and force it into an unstressed spot by placing it adjacent to "hard" which is even stronger in this line. Rhymed, too, so fancy! :)
Thank you for your detailed feedback. I'm glad you liked the poem.
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