What's some metrically interesting poetry? I'm a student

>>8516598
This website is pretty interesting if you would to practice scansion. Go to the hardest difficulty setting and you'll find some bizarre metres
http://prosody.lib.virginia.edu/

>>8516617
>scansion
>prosody
So those are the terms for this sort of this.

This is really cool, actually, thanks.

>>8516598
Yeah Tennyson is one of the best, a meteical virtuoso. Maud in particular.

>>8516598
Gerard Manley Hopkins

>>8516598
I started writing a response but ended up suggesting a whole boatload of poets which I love. I'll cut it down to a shortlist and suggest you check out:
Shakespeare (obviously, the undisputed master of English prosody. Read "Shakespeare's Metrical Art" if you're interested)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (inventor of something called "sprung rhythm", inspired by Anglo-Saxon alliterative metre which he thought better fitted the English language than classical-inspired iambics. Read The Windhover and Pied Beauty)
Hart Crane (I don't know much about American poets, but he's one of them who I think of as having a particularly muscular metre)

Swinburne, Hopkins, Coleridge

>>8516617

what the fuck I think I'm a retard now, I couldn't get the third line of the hardy poem

Btw I should add that Shakespeare actually puts a lot of songs into his plays. The ones mad Ophelia sings in Hamlet, or in his most lyrical play, the Tempest:

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! I hear them,—ding-dong, bell..

One other poet you might want to check out is A.E. Housman, who was inspired a great deal by these songs in Shakespeare.

Thanks for the suggestions. Seeing that everyone recommended Hopkins guess I have to start there, rather interesting.