Does it really meter?

[Doreen Peri]

To give your lines a sense of meter,
gives the song a singing voice.
You can rhyme if you want .. (you rhyme or you don't),
but meter, to me, is not even a choice.

That's just the way it comes outa me.
I hear it with meter inside of my head.
For some it's a tool, I guess, but for me
it' more like the damn metrofuckingnome your piano teacher put on the top of the fricking piano that won't turn off, instead!

heh ... last long line a tribute to Ogden Nash.

[Lightning Rod]

for my part
I listen to the heart

[Steve Plonk]

Sometime it rhyme,
Sometime it won't,
Sometimes it gots a beat,
Sometimes it don't.
Speaking with the within
Tells a heart where its been.

[mtmynd]

writing is another art form where the writer seeks a compositional balance where the flow is easy and moving to the reader, especially themselves, the worst of critics. this flow certainly requires a meter along with all else when composing.

nice composition, Dor'... tyvm

[Doreen Peri]

tick tock tick tock.
meter exists in my head
like a clock.

tock tick tock tick.
get me a pen
and some paper quick!

(thanks for reading and commenting, Lrod, Steve & Cecil!)

[saw]

nice avatar, you wuz a cute little thing.....the internal meter you speak of is the rhythm of your soul.......peace, and happy rhythm !

[mnaz]

I find it meters more, lately. Even rhymes at times.