IS REALLY NO-ONE POSTING ON THIS SITE? Maybe this'll stir the blood
agus 'bíodh solas ann!'Is really no-one posting on this site?Does ev'ry one have nothing left to say?Has ev'ry Poet here been put to flight,Or sit they with their pens as leaves decay?Maybe yet...
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"Write what seems right," indeed.However, I must say it, I do not believe in Choriambics. I believe that an iambic line can begin with a trochaic substitute, but that first foot doesn't designate a...
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So that would be DA da da DA / DA da da DA / DA da da DA / DA da da DA ?
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Thorrin,Just to illustrate Mike's point:Higgledy piggledy,poetElisabeth, maybe while taking histime to rewrite poems that flop or are choriambilically torn to the core should know Michael is right.oOOo
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What's an antispastic line and where.... never heard of it, sorry. To my best guess, most of the lines seem trochaic or amphimacic... well, sort of. Bring on the spanish inquisition as I'm here to...
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Rats! Thousands! Millions! Thanks for the support, but I hope Thorrin knows I want him to find his own rhythm. To each his own. Would Shakespeare be of any importance at all if all we had were his...
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How nice, I got a bit of everything: actual advice, a challenge, a purely spiteful remark, and even sincerity. I conjured something to strike a nerve: and what's better than a poem with an erratic...
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Thorrin, I'm not sure which of the comments you see as spiteful, but if it's my double-dactyl using your own lines to illustrate Mike's point, then I apologise; that was not the intent. If you are not...
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Oh come on, ladies, say what you mean and mean what you say. That way we'll all shed our thin skins and not take things personally. Funnily enough I enjoy erratic meter and shan't be brow beaten by...
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PS: I really like this piece which switches accent... and monometric to boot... what a mind F to even attempt to write, let alone crit imo Sonic Spirit From a distance softly humming comes a presence...
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I just had to retype this post three times. Ugh Spindle, your verses had bite to me when I read them but I was not offended; I apologise if I offended you in turn, I was only emphasising the diverse...
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Authorial mind set, in relation to meaning/intent, is my real interest in this fun art. So thank you for the explanation. On the title side, if offense was taken then that's a good thing too as it...
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