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Expert on poetic meter and Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Intro to meter, with further links: https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-use-2-syllable-words-in-iambic-pentameter/answer/
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Two robust matching pairs of beats is indeed very powerful!
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The first half is all short vowels (including three "i"); other than the satisfyingly open "swear", the beats end on plosives; the final beat syllable alone opens and closes on a voiced plosive; the sibilants and fricatives do the rest.
I will use this, thank you đź‘Ť
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Four iambs actually, niina: four beats landing on every other syllable.
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I’m confused? What am I missing? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complic... Complicity in genocide - Wikipedia
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Jesus Christ, indeed…
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Not true of invasive species. But then that's our fault too!
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Even more fun when you know how to read them in an approximation of the original pronunciation (we'll never know exactly). Everything rhymes perfectly, for a start!
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You're saying it's not illegal to aid and abet a genocide?
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I would 10 out of 10 recommend!
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Biden, Starmer, and every political leader who's armed and assisted Israel are war criminals, and they should be in jail. I don't understand what goes on inside their heads. Starmer's a former human rights lawyer. It's beyond my comprehension.
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I absolutely love this, and his "Upon Julia's Clothes". They're great fun to memorise and recite.
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I would be a very happy monk!
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You’re welcome!
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Ha! Wonderful!
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Mary Oliver's book is a very pleasant read, and there's much to glean from it, but her technical understanding of meter is a little dodgy, if I'm honest, so if you were to rely on her technical analyses it could leave you with some problematic misapprehensions about meter. I wouldn't start with it!
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Though I haven't come across any popular book on prosody where the author has a sufficient technical understanding of the principles of beat displacement. I cover that here: qr.ae/pGeXLZ
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The first book I recommend to beginners is The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry: he's excellent on subjects such as rhyme and enjambment, his technical understanding of meter is very solid up to a point, and his form of notation for scansion is admirably simple and visually appealing.
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I like to know what books to recommend, and the Alfred Corn is the only one of those I haven't read, so I'd be interested to find out what you think of that one, so I can consider whether it's worth my picking up a copy.
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You’re welcome!
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Make sure you've got a handle on the principles of beat displacement: qr.ae/pGeXLZ
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