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Tips for Poets ~
Norse Alliterative Poetry Workshop
Practice: Write in Old Meter!
Theory´s over. Now, sharpen
your pen, and write your own very first lines of Old Meter!
This is a practice and should be fun, so relax and brainstorm. Anything goes. An
invocation to your favorite god, a scene from a grim berserk fight, or your new
schmuck vacuum cleaner - it´s up to you.
Write two or three stanzas in Old Meter. They don´t have to be clever, or
beautiful - just stick to the meter, so that I can see you´ve understood the
principle. If the lines happen to be totally unrelated to each other, or
nonsensical, that is okay too.
However, deviations from the meter are *not* allowed in this practice
!
If you can´t find a beginning, what about:
Hail to the high and holy God Thor,
...
Bruno the Berserk was bellowing loudly:
"...
My vacuum cleaner has cost me a lot,
...
Post your stanzas in the Old Meter Practice Forum. We shall appreciate them
there together, and if there happens to be a deviation from the meter, we´ll
take it as an opportunity to learn.