Poem with Metrical Breaks
Dew drops on a leaf
Clear rounded half-spheres
Provide some moisture
and life
It is Poem with Line Variations
Water buffalo is funny
Laying in mud like a toad in the hot summer
But some days I wish that
I could join that buffalo in his slimy bath
Except the irking flies
Enjoy the cool air like the water buffalo.
In the first poem I kept the line to "and life" because water (in all forms) is very powerful. It can wear away at stone or power a whole factory, but perhaps its most valuable function is giving and maintaining life on earth. In the second poem my two meters are trochaic tetrameter and dactylic tetrameter (alternating). I thought that it seemed kind of random like the subject of my poem. Also, water buffalo go for long periods of rest and then short bursts of activity, characterized by the short lines and long lines.
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