Fascinating Rhythm You Got Me Poem

Fascinating Rhythm: You Got Me!

THE METHOD (your thoughts and feelings, please, before you read “The Muse”)

line 1: The old dog up.

line 2: I can remember when he was a pup.

Aloud now (you can recite it!): line 2 of our poem – at least three times! – and listen to more than just the sense of each word and the sense of each individual phrase; listen purposefully to the sounds your actual two ears hear as you recite line 2 of our poem out loud over and over and over again. Pay careful (full of care!) attention to the sounds, you hear me!

THE MUSE
Do you hear or see some kind of connection between the number of syllables in each word and, as is the case with music, the rhythm of the sounds that you hear? With the exception of the word “remember,” which has three syllables (re-mem-ber), all the other words in line 2 and all the words we know about in line l are monosyllabic (they’re single-syllable words).
Our poem’s monosyllabic words -- the, and old, and dog, and up, and I, and can, and when, and he, and was, and a, and pup -- make use of all the vowel letters except the letter