Great Regulars: Who cares if we remember iambic pentameter

from our high school English class? Not me. It's the ease and pleasure of the regularity I feel here. I know what to expect. And the added pleasure of the rhyme in its typical Shakespearean pattern. (Do you suppose Shakespeare knew he was writing a Shakespearean sonnet?) The rhyme braids the whole thing together.

from Fleda Brown: Traverse City Record-Eagle: On Poetry: Pleasure of feeling happy and sad

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