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Jesse the Storyteller 8/17/08 . chapter 1At the end of the first stanza, you say that the man is blind. In the very next line you say that he is not blind. That contradiction is bad. I know you were trying to make a point, but it ends up just sounding confusing and silly. Maybe if you had skipped all that and combined them, saying "A man who was not blind, but proud / For so long he did not see the clues" or something, I dunno. It's your poem. "A groom with his ladies, a bride with her men" - this is a great line, it is a powerful image, very original. However, the couplet at the end? About how she rips the dress and the seamstress... the rhyme seems really forced, it's a clumsy line and sounds ridiculous. "Then the groom turned around, so indifferent / and went back to his mistress' bed." GREAT way to end this - haunting and powerful. This entire poem needs punctuation, however. -Jesse Attack of the review marathon! (link in profile) |