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Poem
December 9, 1916
Goodwin's Weekly : A Thinking Paper For Thinking People
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah
What is this article about?
Christopher Morley's sonnet 'PEDOMETER' explores how walking's rhythm inspires sonnet composition, contrasting it with free verse, and evokes fellow 'walk-and-singers' like Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and Keats.
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PEDOMETER
By Christopher Morley.
My thoughts beat out in sonnets while I walk,
And every evening on the homeward street
I find the rhythm of my marching feet
Throbs into verses (though the rhyme may balk).
I think the sonneteers were walking men.
The form is dour and rigid, like a clamp;
But with the swing of legs, the tramp, tramp, tramp
Of syllables begins to thud, and then,
Lo! while you seek a rhyme for hook or crook,
Vanished your shabby coat, and you are kith
To all great walk-and-singers--Meredith,
And Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Keats, and Rupert Brooke.
Free verse is poor for walking, but a sonnet,
Oh, marvelous to stride and brood upon it!
-December Century.
By Christopher Morley.
My thoughts beat out in sonnets while I walk,
And every evening on the homeward street
I find the rhythm of my marching feet
Throbs into verses (though the rhyme may balk).
I think the sonneteers were walking men.
The form is dour and rigid, like a clamp;
But with the swing of legs, the tramp, tramp, tramp
Of syllables begins to thud, and then,
Lo! while you seek a rhyme for hook or crook,
Vanished your shabby coat, and you are kith
To all great walk-and-singers--Meredith,
And Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Keats, and Rupert Brooke.
Free verse is poor for walking, but a sonnet,
Oh, marvelous to stride and brood upon it!
-December Century.
What sub-type of article is it?
Sonnet
What keywords are associated?
Pedometer
Sonnet
Walking
Marching Feet
Poets
Christopher Morley
What entities or persons were involved?
By Christopher Morley.
Poem Details
Title
Pedometer
Author
By Christopher Morley.
Subject
On Walking And Composing Sonnets
Key Lines
Free Verse Is Poor For Walking, But A Sonnet,
Oh, Marvelous To Stride And Brood Upon It!