This match-making process is one of the toughest parts of writing poetry.
It often fails by being too forced in its attempted coupling or by following a path that's already too well-trodden. As a poet, I'm constantly wrestling with the task of marrying adjectives to nouns in a way that casts new light yet immediately sounds natural.
“Of the innumerable traditional verse forms, the sonnet is not only the
most persistent but also the most pervasive” states Paul Muldoon in the
introductio...
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