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Re: prahzzzuhdee



Alfred B Johnson wrote:

> >>>I hate to be the literature police
>
> :)
>
> Hey don't ya hassle me, prosody copper.
> You don't know who yer messin' wit'.
>

no, I didn't.  I am sufficiently humbled.

>
> :)
>
> 1.
>   v         /       v/   v   /        v     /   v      /
> Two weeks ago I called my parents' home.
>
> Pentameter, since five footed, and fairly imabic; though "Two" and "I"
> are both pretty loud for unaccented syllables.

I caught this one.

>
>
> 2.
>   v        /v    /      v    /     v    /    /
> That's also why I won't be at Taft.
> -->> Would have been better as --- >>>>
>
>    v      /  v     /   v    /      v   /   v    /
> That's also why I won't be at the Taft

that was what threw me off.  It was a bit anapest.

>
>
> I think we could quibble about my scanning, which is why I went with just
> "pentameter" to describe this stuff.  That way we can troche, anapest,
> dachtyl, spondee, or whatever, to our heartses delightses.
>

What confused me is that most of what you had written could be scanned
iambic, but only some pentameter.  I thought maybe you really ment iambic,
since many people I know confuse the two.

>
> I'm done playing.  :)
>
> (Did I mention I'm an English teacher?)

lol, no, but that's cool.  Some of my good friends are english teachers.  Not
that I'm a nerd or anything......

>
>
> prosody,
>
> Fred
> ________________________________________________________________

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