[Bards] Need help with formats

[GottfriedSBK]

Then the italian would be more correct-- pardon the spelling?

Veni, Vidi, Vicci, the end.

Gottfried
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jay Rudin 
  To: Ansteorran Bardic list 
  Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 9:13 AM
  Subject: Re: [Bards] Need help with formats


  Mostly.  That line could be in an iambic tetrameter verse, but it contains one metrical variation.  It actually scans as:

  iamb, iamb, trochee, iamb
  (da-DUM, da-DUM; DUM-da, da DUM)

  This is a very common variation, useually at the beginning of a line or (as here) right after a pause halfway through the line.  This pause is called a ceasura.  The substitution is called a trochaic inversion.  There's one after the ceasura in the following line:

  To be, or not to be.  That is the question.
  (da-DUM, da-DUM, da-DUM. DUM-da, da-DUM-da)

  Note also the feminine ending on the last foot.

  Robin of Gilwell / Jay Rudin

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: GottfriedSBK 
    To: Ansteorran Bardic list 
    Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 8:32 AM
    Subject: Re: [Bards] Need help with formats


    Iambic tetrameter would be:

    he came, he saw, conquered, the end.

    True?

    Gottfried


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