[Bards] Poetic Exercise #5
Samuel E Orton
iainmacc at juno.com
Fri Oct 3 04:46:12 PDT 2003
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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