Tips for writing metred poetry

It seems really difficult to have to sound out every word that you are using to fit the metre whilst simultaneously conveying a specific message. Any tips?

Also how do you know if you are misinterpreting metre?

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Just use free verse.

That seems like a real limited way to write, the more techniques you know the more ways you can convey your message. Plus, some poetry competitions require metre.

Just use prose poetry.

>writing metred poetry in 2019

I understand that most people don't write metred poetry anymore. However, most people still know how to use metre.

Also some small scale uni competitions expect metre.

It's not that hard to write in metered verse.
Here are two lines of iambic pentameter.

If you're trying to use blank verse, most language falls quite naturally into it.
>I want to eat a piece of yummy cake.
>My dad came home and slapped my mum to death.
Metre is not an exact science, stresses are sometimes dictated by where the word falls in the line, other times it will feel obviously different from the metre. Just read older poetry and try to see where the stresses lie in that.

Almost all modern poets still use metre, because it's impossible not to. They just don't tend to use a regular or set metre as much, they play around with it a lot more. It's just like how all poets use rhyme, they just don't all use full rhymes at the end of every line - maybe they have internal rhymes or half-rhymes.

>modern poets

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For English though
It's sadly so
That metre in a word
Is really quite absurd

It's not that hard to use
But English poets choose
To focus on the verse
It's really quite perverse

It's no task
To write metre well
Just speak from the heart
Your chest with pride will swell

when i see crybabies rail against free verse it makes me glad verse is dead

No, if you use strict iambs for every line your verse will sound like a metronome, not like music.

Maybe you are confusing blank verse with free verse

That's tip #1 for OP

Blank verse does have meter, though. Blank verse =/= free verse
>if the words flow nicely and give me feelings, I think it's good poetry.
Well I wouldn't say that's an ideal way to approach poetry, but it's certainly better than what most of Yea Forums does (ride the dick of whoever can put rhymes together and shit on everyone who doesn't, except maybe Whitman).

Sorry m8 but the second line barely resembles pentameter
>HERE are TWO LINES of IAMbic PENtaMEter

> if you use strict iambs for every line your verse will sound like a metronome, not like music
Yeah, but you have only two lines. You have to establish a rhythm before you can diverge from it, and mere two lines give far too little space for that. Notice how Shakespeare is much more strict in his short-form works - the sonnets - than in the relatively lengthy dramas.

>all poets use rhyme
What

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Any good examples of prose poetry to recommend?

I like Tranströmer's and those really short Kafka pieces, but to be honest I haven't read much. I was thinking more from a theoretical angle, that if metre is hard for you it's probably a better idea to stay on the ground than to go off-piste.

David Jones.
archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.13580/2015.13580.In-Parenthesis_djvu.txt if you want to sample it.
Also, metre is still an important part of free verse. Just because it isn't following a particular scheme, it is used for effect. Ignoring it will lead to phrases sounding wrong or throwing off the pace of your poem.

you dont need tips, just do it