A lesson in prosody

     

"Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater"
   
Is trochaic tetrameter.

Rudolf Steiner:  "Word-content can never express soul and spirit. The poet is justified in saying: “If the soul speaks, alas, it is no longer the soul that speaks.” For prose is not the soul's language. The soul expresses itself in beat, rhythm, melodious theme, image, and the formation of speech sounds. The soul is present as long as the poem expresses rising and falling inner movements."

Source: May 20, 1923