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I enjoy the structure of rhyme and meter now and then, so if I'm choosing to tackle a couplet or sonnet or formal poem, I like to go through and think of one word or phrase and then find words and phrases that will suit it. I check meter 500 times. I'm lovely-Rita-meter-maid about it.
I also like blank verse, but that requires a more open mind. I edit those, but often times the first words the open mind leads me to are the best.
I have a tendency to cram many images in a small space, so often I have to go and thin stuff out.
I, also, just like to see how words sound together. Last weekend, we came upon the phrase "noodle duty." Say it out loud. Isn't it perfect? I'd parse the words and sounds in a linguistic way so its perfection would be clearly laid out. But that's geeky enough for the geek-off thread.
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