why is meter so often ignored in early (ie elementary/middle school) poetry theory? is it just harder to get? i admit i am somewhat inferring this because most people who write really bad poetry simply ignore meter while clinging tight to rhyme
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Probably a matter of rhyme schemes being the simplest thing in "poetry theory". For teachers *and* students. I don't know that poetry ought even to be looked at before high school. (Apart from the occasional school bus limerick.)
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yep. meter is related to musical rhythm and these days grade-school kids don't even play in actual band, they just toot the recorder at certain points while the teacher plays a song off her iphone
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This was more advanced than my English education
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