A Single Space and Time
00 For just one second more I bid you wait, 02 br
00 For I have stood here waiting for too long, 02 br
00 To hear a stranger passing in the night, 02 br
00 To feel the swelling heart’s abounding love. 02 br
00 A warm breeze off the ocean’s crest so fair, 02 br
00 The stars of night so beautifully are lit. 02 br
00 A distant stranger passing slowly by, 02 br
00 His heart searches as endlessly as mine, 02 br
00 A match that only ever God conceives, 02 br
00 So funny how things are not what they seem, 02 br
00 For beauty holds within much greater things. 02 br
00 Observer from afar, you’d never see 02 br
00 The artist that is so instilled in me. 02 br
00 I bid you wait for me once more so dear, 02 br
00 When thoughts concede to dreams and weary things, 02 br
00 Fear not retreat from sense and place and time, 02 br
00 My thought is clear so long my soul is kind. 02 br
00 Forever I will wait for you my dear, 02 br
00 Our kindred souls await a chance to meet. 0-
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0 These lines and phrases have metric problems: 02 br 02 br 02 br 00 His heart searches as endlessly as mine, 02 br 00 only ever *** -- 01 i 00 using extra words as meter-filler 02 i 02 br 00 So funny how things are not what they seem, 02 br 00 once more so dear -- 01 i 00 using extra words as meter-filler 02 i 02 br 00 so long my soul -- 01 i 00 deleting necessary words to fit the meter 02 i 02 br 02 br 02 br 00 You are sometimes treating iambic pentameter as a Procrustean bed. After you have written your draft, recite it to yourself-- aloud and with feeling-- to check for lines which are off-meter and phraseology which is stretched or shrunk merely to fit the five feet. 0-
- 0 These lines and phrases have metric problems: 02 br 02 br 02 br 00 His heart searches as endlessly as mine, 02 br 00 only ever *** -- 01 i 00 using extra words as meter-filler 02 i 02 br 00 So funny how things are not what they seem, 02 br 00 once more so dear -- 01 i 00 using extra words as meter-filler 02 i 02 br 00 so long my soul -- 01 i 00 deleting necessary words to fit the meter 02 i 02 br 02 br 02 br 00 You are sometimes treating iambic pentameter as a Procrustean bed.
- After you have written your draft, recite it to yourself-- aloud and with feeling-- to check for lines which are off-meter and phraseology which is stretched or shrunk merely to fit the five feet.
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02 br
00 His heart searches as endlessly as mine, 02 br
00 only ever *** -- 01 i 00 using extra words as meter-filler 02 i 02 br
00 So funny how things are not what they seem, 02 br
00 once more so dear -- 01 i 00 using extra words as meter-filler 02 i 02
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