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Winter wields only the spades, Summer brandishes
Hot, black clubs, Spring shower hearts about and Autumn shows
A fall of diamonds in our climate of extremes

— John Hollander Extract from 'Powers of Thirteen (1983)

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Contrastive stress is very important in English, as poems are full of invisible italicised contrasts of this kind.

The building blocks of poetry itself are elements if fiction -fable, 'image', metaphor-all the material if the nonliteral.

One crosses the brink of literalness into poetry by desiring , noticing, fixing on something and wondering what to make of it.

English Prosody has tended to be a subject for cranks.

'Poetic form' is a very deep matter that covers much more than phonological or typological pattern.

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