It may simply be that I prefer the more melancholic interpretation, lol.
I think Mitchell's enjambment is sesnational --"Where there is poetry, / it is Orpheus singing" -- except that I can't quite forgive him for "Isn't it enough if sometimes he can stay / with us a few days longer than a rose?"
I see that on paper it's mostly iambic, but I can't say it out loud any way that doesn't jangle.
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Date: 2022-05-26 05:26 pm (UTC)I think Mitchell's enjambment is sesnational --"Where there is poetry, / it is Orpheus singing" -- except that I can't quite forgive him for "Isn't it enough if sometimes he can stay /
with us a few days longer than a rose?"
I see that on paper it's mostly iambic, but I can't say it out loud any way that doesn't jangle.