Playing with Meter 1: The Anapest

In my first book for children, “A is for Arnyx: An Alphabet in Verse,”I set out to write a book of children’s poetry, that would not only be fun to read aloud, but which would allow me to experiment with meter and verse forms, a long-time interest if mine.

From time to time on this blog, I will post verse that continue that tradition. This is the first of a series:

Meter is the basic rhythmic structure of aa line of verse. In English, it is usually described in terms of stressed and unstress...