BY JOHN JENSEN
Recently I read a piece about the making of poetry. All about metre. Well, I was starting from scratch.
I have written what I fondly believed was poetry but I never knew the difference between a dactyl and a pterodactyl; I thought trochaic followed the Cambrian era; I believed pyrrhus was a gum disease and antibacchic was its cure; that molossus was found in the pantry and dimeter was a famous Roman athlete.