| Plath or Sexton | 15 |
| Person creating rhymes | 22 |
| One well-versed in words' worth | 35 |
| O'Neill's "A Touch of the ___" | 48 |
| Metrist, sometimes | 18 |
| Merrill or Wilbur | 17 |
| Masters, e.g. | 13 |
| Lyricist, essentially | 21 |
| Limerick writer, e.g. | 21 |
| Langston Hughes, e.g. | 21 |
| Haiku author | 12 |
| Frost, say | 10 |
| Frost or Burns | 14 |
| Frost for one | 14 |
| Ferlinghetti, notably | 21 |
| Ezra Pound's profession | 27 |
| Donne or Pound, e.g. | 20 |
| Coffeehouse performer | 21 |
| Coffeehouse attraction, maybe | 29 |
| Blake or Burns | 14 |
| ___ laureate | 12 |
| Worker with a lot of stress? | 28 |
| Wilbur or Nemerov | 17 |
| Whitman, for one | 16 |
| Whitman, e.g. | 13 |
| Whitman or Wilbur | 17 |
| Walt Whitman, for one | 21 |
| W.H. Auden or E.E. Cummings | 27 |
| Verse's author | 18 |
| Verse person | 12 |
| Verse expert | 12 |
| Verse creator | 13 |
| Vers-librist | 12 |
| User of scanning devices | 24 |
| Spenser or Spender | 18 |
| Spender, e.g. | 13 |
| Southey was one | 15 |
| Sonnet writer | 13 |
| Sonnet source | 13 |
| Sonnet creator | 14 |
| Snug-bug connector? | 19 |
| Slam competitor | 15 |
| Sexton, say | 11 |
| Sexton or Pope, e.g. | 20 |
| Sexton or Nemerov | 17 |
| Sassoon or Service | 18 |
| Sappho, e.g. | 12 |
| Sandburg was one | 16 |
| Rodolfo in "La Bohème" | 35 |
| Robert Frost, for one | 21 |
| Robert Frost, e.g. | 18 |
| Robert Browning, for one | 24 |
| Richard Wilbur, e.g. | 20 |
| Richard Wilbur is one | 21 |
| Richard Purdy Wilbur, for one | 29 |
| Recital artist | 14 |
| Rap composer, in a way | 22 |
| Pulitzer Prize winner Howard Nemerov, e.g. | 42 |
| Pound or Moore, e.g. | 20 |
| Pound e.g. | 11 |
| Plath was one | 13 |
| Peasant's musical partner | 29 |
| Pablo Neruda, for one | 21 |
| One writing verse | 17 |
| One working with feet professionally | 36 |
| One working with feet | 21 |
| One with stressing work? | 24 |
| One with idyll musings? | 23 |
| One who's well versed | 25 |
| One who works with feet | 23 |
| One who works in feet and meters | 32 |
| One who works in feet | 21 |
| One who handles stress effectively? | 35 |
| One who deals with stress well? | 31 |
| One who "can survive everything but a misprint": Wilde | 64 |
| One putting one's feet together? | 36 |
| One published in a literary magazine, perhaps | 45 |
| One known for fancy foot work | 29 |
| One concerned with feet | 23 |
| One born, not made | 18 |
| One appealing to a meter reader? | 32 |
| Ogden Nash, for one | 19 |
| Odist, for one | 14 |
| Odist, for instance | 19 |
| Odist | 5 |
| Natasha Trethewey, for one | 26 |
| Morrissey "Sister I'm a ___" | 42 |
| Moore or Riley | 14 |
| Metrist, perhaps | 16 |
| Meter-watcher | 13 |
| Meter master | 12 |
| Meter expert | 12 |
| May Sarton for one | 19 |
| Man of letters | 14 |
| Lyricist | 8 |
| Lowell, for one | 15 |
| Lovelace, for one | 17 |
| Lovelace, e.g. | 14 |
| Lord Byron or Lord Tennyson | 27 |
| Linesman, maybe? | 16 |