Yeats

[linebaugh]

He does seem to "lose" rhythm sometimes, although I think in his post-Pound work at least this is a deliberate effect, a conscious harshness.

Saying that I also wonder about how he read his poems aloud, too, in the video I just posted you can hear him changing/singing "The lake isle of inisfree".

Which I don't particularly enjoy but it does suggest that he was going for a certain melodious effect that might have superceded metre

It seems rythmn and smoothness was a big focus of his edits. That version of Solomon and The Witch is way more imediate than the one in my book, both in meter and message.

 

[Corpsey]

So is your version the earlier version?

 

[Corpsey]

Reminds me of how Pound reads e.g.