[Bards] Poetic Exercise #5

[Samuel E Orton]

On 03 Oct 2003 02:22:22 -0500 Ulf Gunnarsson <ulfie at cox.net> writes:
>We have played with the iambic foot.  Now it is time to let the other
>shoe drop and play with the trochaic foot.  The trochaic foot is the
>opposite of the iambic.  It is a pair of syllables, the first being
>stressed and the second being unstressed.  For example:
>
>"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,..."

	I'll have to remember this the next time someone asks me why I
don't dance. *Of course* I don't dance, one of my feet is trochaic, the
other iambic.

			In Joyful Service,

				Iain MacCrimmon


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