[Bards] Need help with formats

[ED Reese]

Master Robin,
 
This is fascinating, but utterly new to me. Where was this switch back and forth used? Why? What are the rules? Who did it?
 
Can you expand on this, at least by giving me a short bibliography of where to start my own research? I feel like I came in in the middle of a great story....

 
Esther
 
PS  Apologies for not having that SASE in the mail to you yet for your paper, but I got rolled over by the holiday. I will do my best to get it out to you this week.

Jay Rudin <rudin at ev1.net> wrote:
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 
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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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