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I did compose a d-d for the occasion of the first year of this board's existence. Since I am too modest to go fiche-ing for compliments, perhaps someone else would like to post it here
with pleasure, and with my compliments:
Higgledy Piggledy,
Anu Garg's AWADtalk
Celebrates one year of
Being today.
Stilling the urge to wax
Sesquipedalian,
I'll keep it short and say:
"Hip, hip, hooray!"
And as we are coming to the second anniversary, would you perhaps offer a complementary re-doubling of the dactyl to accompany that compliment?
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Dear AnnaS,
I'm glad to be able to read your first-anniversary double-dactyl. How about treating us to another?
Here are a couple verses that highlight the most common varieties of metrical feet:
The iambs go from short to long,
Trochees sing a marching song,
Dactyls go dancing as light as a feather,
But the anapest’s different you see, altogether.
(Richard Lederer)
Trochee trips from long to short;
From long to long in solemn sort
Slow Spondee stalks, strong foot!, yet ill able
Ever to come up with Dactyl's trisyllable.
Iambics march from short to long.
With a leap and a bound the swift Anapests throng.
(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
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Tin ear strikes again. I gather I'm meant to be able to work out what each of the feet is from these rhymes? Let's see. I can tell stressed from unstressed, so let's apply that to the first line.
Trochee trips from long to short;
S-u S u S u S
Hm, looks like cataleptic iambic tetrameter to me. So let's try a different track. I can tell open from closed syllables by looking for the presence of a final consonant.
Trochee trips from long to short;
o-o C C C o C
Nope, can't recognize any patterns there. But a "long" syllable in the classical languages is one which is either closed, or has a long vowel. Both tro- and chee- are long the way I say them, so that makes it:-
Trochee trips from long to short;
L-L L L L s L
At which point I confirm I'm not destined for a career in poetry or music, and give up once more.
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