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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)
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Fiche-ing for dactyls Jackie 03/01/02 01:15 AM Re: Fiche-ing for dactyls Rouspeteur 03/01/02 01:38 AM Re: Fiche-ing for dactyls slithy toves 03/01/02 01:46 AM Re: Fiche-ing for dactyls Keiva 03/01/02 02:56 AM anapaest, iamb etc NicholasW 03/02/02 09:02 AM Re: Fiche-ing for dactyls Jackie 03/02/02 02:04 AM Re: Fiche-ing for dactyls wwh 03/02/02 02:08 PM Re: Fiche-ing for dactyls consuelo 03/02/02 09:48 PM Re: Fiche-ing for dactyls wwh 03/02/02 11:11 PM Re: Fiche-ing for dactyls AnnaStrophic 03/03/02 01:32 AM Re: Fiche-ing for dactyls Keiva 03/03/02 02:20 AM Re: Fiche-ing for dactyls slithy toves 03/03/02 02:51 AM Trochee trips from long to short; NicholasW 03/03/02 08:18 AM
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