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Text and Meaning

A blog for students in Ben Lempert and Claudia Salamanca's Rhetoric 1A class, "Reading the Present: Text and Meaning," UC Berkeley, Fall 2008

Sunday, October 26, 2008

How to scan poetry

Hey everybody,

For those of you interested in (or confused by) the way rhythm and meter work in poetry, here's a decent little guide written by Robert Hass, former US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner (and current Berkeley professor!). For those of you who aren't, feel free to ignore this post.

How to scan poetry

Enjoy!
Posted by Ben Lempert at 10/26/2008 02:40:00 PM

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