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Two Poems: A Rictameter And How Freedom Dies
17 December 2007, the poet @ 11:14 pm

I’ve never heard of a rictameter, but I like the idea. The form is a nine-line poem where the first and last lines are the same and each succeeding line in the poem carries an even number of syllables, like so:

2
4
6
8
10
8
6
4
2You can read two rictameters from this English professor.In other poetry news, an anonymous poet writing under the pen name of George Washington has rewritten a famous poem with real life examples embodied in links.

You can read the original poem, “First They Came,” here.

So when will they come for you?

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