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34 MEASURES possibilities. The neural effects of how we hear the rhythm and length of a Tine seem close to how we appiehend. o we lave seen, the analysis ol measurod verse can be quite complex. Much more áficule wonle. be understaraling how, within the processes of evolution, the first human speech for record aná reirerarion depended upon the recutzances ol whar we 1o0w call the poetic line. Vonctheless te is in dae simple clap of the hand, the tap of che foor, that these metrical patterns have their foundation, * pei], Jeff Pal: fe basica “FREE VERSE?” a a — Vilien His Verse ws Ñ azy axd indispensible pan FURTHER READING A: amy vans mor caly alo Auiége, Deres (1995) Poetic Combridge: Cambridge University Press. Hussell, Paul (1979) Poetic Metre and Po Raudom House. Holub, M. (1990) The Dimension of the Present Mo: Yomng, London: Tater 8 Faber Leech, Ccolfrey 'N. (1969) A Ling Condor: Longnam: Chapter 7. Stellworthy, Jon (1996) “Versificaron” in and ]. Srallwortby (eds) Tire Norton Antholugy of Poefr. edirion, New York: Norton. y as rhymae itself. T Cxeca ie live produccd a variety da y every frac, horh of cadences Es auerber ol sy ! o + Every voyd and every lelles os sm Form, New Yor sl ard put into its fiz place, he Le: Geevifir pares, ane valla de i al gene fur he mii $ gende parts, and the prosaic mwambers are zeserved lun all are necasy u em, oder Poetry Teteró Fetie:s Cte Haraan Razo, “obte, ferro o a o e ok the theory, and che spirit, thai guvo rise to “he notian of Joe verse ia du twenticth century con be seen in dlís address by : TA a en weiling es the outser of the nineteenth. ie sazer al explore the origin oí la seme co be nora in Ese mwentieth vontury as “free verse", and look emy dl " ense”, and look al this mny direc Jlons this appz0ach to the poetie lios has taken muay Bree La “FREE VERSE" As Blake acknowledges, poets have frequentiy chafed at the fowmal demends they inherit, which is why Shakespeare and Milton “derived! thcic verse frora rhyme and wrote blank verse. We have seen too in Chapter 4 how measured verse segularized the numbers of cadences and syllables, but that this regularity was not always serict in practice. But Blake finds their measusus *manoranous”, He wants "variery in every line" and it 3s the regulation oÉ beat thar bucomes the later liberators” complaint against measured verse. When Ezra Pound (1885-1972) joined the argument he wged poets “19 compuse in the sequence ol the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronoras”. Riryilra then should not be timed by a pre-set mechanism, but suit the demands of Lhe individual pocm according so whether Ls, as Blake wites, tevribic or “mild de gende” “FREE VERSE" AND LIMLRATION Bue the arguaneat is nor only technical but part of a wider claim to; Liberation. Blake's view ol poetry is visionary, and for Lion its true voice is the original voice of hrmankind, Le states that his verse is diciated” to him, no: composed within the schemes of tradition: This pristine utterance of/a true Oraror” comes from divine inspi- retion and cannot be so confined. Indecd those schemes are bul another part ol the chains ol culmre tit bind the natural freedom ¿har is our original state: “Poetry Fetrerrd Fotiers the Haman Race! Although two oÉ 315 major influences in the twenrietl cenvazy, Ezra Pound and T. 5. Elior (1888 1963), shared nothing? of is Romantic temperament, poetic «llegiance os philosophy ef Blake's, there is 3 powerful part ol the poetes ol'fres verse o appeals to broader hopes of liberation. Let us therefore look ar the ¿BARES o vere as bot formal and a clica development. HE BIBLICAL LINE E la respect ol 'mumbens”, ile Diblical line righu be describcd as free *Tese lines are from Psalm 156: xl, fos his mercy : O give thanks vato the Losd; lor he ís y enduretin forever ¿ Tecorrence al theie opening —*0 give thanks * Blake wn a FREE VERSE" O give rianis unto the Ged of gado: for his mercy endur forever Ñ O give thanks to the Loud of lors: for his mery endusesh “otever Mis seo alone dosth great wonder: fa= his mercy eadureth forever : To kin that by wisdom 
