[New-Poetry] Questions on form

[TheOldMole]

Maybe in the American south. I had a friend from Tennessee, an excellent 
poet, but she could never get meter, She said it was because where she 
came from, they added extra syllables to everything -- "bee-yootiful," 
etc. But this diesn't explain why so many southern poets from Lanier to 
Timrod to the Fugitives wrote in regular meter, without the 
extra-syllable Southernisms.

Chris Lott wrote:
> I understand where the 4th syllables are supposed to be, I just don't
> ever hear anyone actually verbalizing them. In my head they sound
> different, particularly when spelled to reflect the missing syllable
> (different vs diffrent) but in reality I and everyone else I can think
> of (I'lll have to pay more attention) actually *say* it as "diffrent"
> ...
>
> I grew up in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska...
>
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