[New-Poetry] Re: a dead ear for scansion

[Skip Fox]

Listening exercise (and why not?):

 

On a windy day, sit in a park or other place with a variety of leafed trees
(you can do it with pines and cedars and cypresses but it's harder). Try to
pick out the various sounds of the various trees. (You can check by walking
over to them.) When you are able to "isolate" each different tree sound,
listen to them in the symphony again.  

 

Do three times in two weeks and you'll be a Scansion Monk, Third Level. 

 

(But, seriously, if you can do this (and anybody can), scansion is simple. .
.  And I'm not counting Bok. He's a performer of his work in a very staged
and polished, his visual presentation as well as his vocal delivery. It,
too, scans, but it is difficult to do so due to his fast paced, staccato
delivery.)

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