"The practical benefits of literary forms. As blogspace evolves all around us, new forms of writing appear. I mean forms in a technical sense -- literary forms, or patterns of writing. One of the most interesting of these is David McCusker's. Recently he explained why and how he writes in stanzas, with five fixed-length lines per stanza. "This obviously isn't poetry," writes David. "So you might wonder, why do I do it?" His answers resonated very much with my own sense of writing as an art which, like software, is creative yet mechanical. [Jon's Radio]"
I remember Sean telling me that he wrote his essays in Iambic Pentameter but presented them as prose. The ideas about discipline are similar. In the preface to Dylan Thomas' collected poems the last line rhymes with the first, second with the penultimate etc.
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