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Re: prahzzzuhdee


I'm officially scared.

--- Alfred B Johnson <hoopyfrood at juno_com> wrote:
> >>>I hate to be the literature police
> 
> :)
> 
> Hey don't ya hassle me, prosody copper.          
> You don't know who yer messin' wit'.
> 
> :)
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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
> 
> Which, again, would have resulted in a nice iambic pentameter line,
> though a heavy hitting one with all the monosyllablic words, which,
> it
> seems to me, come out as unaccented only when next to *more*
> accented
> words.  Some of these feet are arguably spondees (//).  
> 
> 3.
>   v    / v   /       v  /    v     /
> But if I could, I surely would.
> 
> Which is certainly tetrameter.  Maybe iambic.  I never quite trust
> my
> scanning.  I think there are some spondee moments in here, too.
> 
> 4 and 5.
>    v        /     v      /    v   /   v   /   v    /
> Why can't we write in meter for a change?
> v    /      v     /       v    /     v  /       v      /
> I think the skills are well within our range.
> 
> A rhymed (and therefore) heroic couplet, both lines with rather
> strong
> first syllables.  Definitely pentameter.
> 
> 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.
> 
> v  /      v    /           /       /        v    v    /       v   
> v    /
> Over the Rhine makes songs for the dark and the light.   
> [pentameter
> with spondee and 2 anapests]
> /       v   v   v  v   /        
> Linford is in the house;       [dimeter with dactyl and anapest]
> /         /         /     v
> Rhys said something      [dimeter with spondee (possibly a troche)
> and
> troche]
> v    /    v    /
> About a mouse.     [iambic dimeter]
> 
> 
> The thing about meter is that it has to do with feel.  The words
> that
> make an anapest in one line can make something different in another
> line.
> 
> I'm done playing.  :) 
> 
> (Did I mention I'm an English teacher?)
> 
> prosody,
> 
> Fred
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