#syllable count

[lasvegasartscene]

For I Must Speak About The Poems Today

For I Must Speak About The Poems Today

For I must speak about the poems today. La-LAH la-LAH la-LAH la-LAH la-LAH. This is Iambic Pentameter, a five part set of specific syllables. It starts with one short syllable then one long and this counts as one foot in your line, and you keep doing that five times. Then you’ve completed your first line in Iambic Pentameter. In this poetry, a foot is the beat which you are going to be writing…

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[sepoetryprompts]

5.30

a pound of flesh, no more, no less. describe to me a pound of perfection in 16 syllables OR lines. (extra points for syllables of course!) the pound is of your choosing.

[nycpizzahaiku]

How could you ever,

in seventeen syllables,

measure pizza's worth?