This book

[Ros]

reviewed here https://poetryschool.com/reviews/re-rev ... m-wootten/ praises its control of meter. I thought from the poems quoted that the meter seemed odd, with stresses on the wrong words, eg l2 in v2 in particular:

But walking back that evening,
Cold in the rags of the moon,
I heard somebody singing
Some haunting, hurting tune
.
So lovely that the tears came
Down as I walked along
Knowing that there is an end
To every haunting song.

Possibly it's the line breaks I'm objecting to.

Or is it just me?

[Antcliff]

I read that line as rather playfully stressing "down"? It seems a tad redundant...tears not usually coming "up".

Seth