Poetry 15: Monthly Poetry Prompt

Poetry 15: Monthly Poetry Prompt

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Poetry 15: Monthly Poetry Prompt
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Right Shoes

Right Shoes

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Hello, poets! I’ve been hearing from many of you about poems you’ve written and published for my prompts, and I love receiving this news. Keep it coming!

This month, I have a revision prompt for you. My feet hurt, and I realized that I was wearing the wrong size shoes. What? Yes. I just thought my feet were so extremely particular that locating a pair that could withstand some mileage was a difficult feat. (I’m sorry but I couldn’t resist the pun.) But no! Thank goodness.

Let’s make sure our poems are wearing shoes that fit! A metrical foot is usually an unstressed plus a stressed syllable (two syllables, if we’re thinking of iambs as the predominant metrical foot in English

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