One Thing Leads to Another

I was flipping through a poetry book over the weekend and
landed by chance on “The
Destruction of Sennacherib.” If you read any poetry in high school or
college, you probably encountered this piece by Lord Byron. I don’t remember studying
or discussing the contents of the poem at all, but I do remember talking about
its anapestic rhythm (ba-ba-BA, ba-ba-BA), which can feel like the galloping of