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- From: gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry)
- Subject: Metre (was Re: Lovely film, I cried)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.214242.29025@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
- References: <1993Jan20.170008.28557@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1993Jan20.210928.10009@cbnews.cb.att.com> <1993Jan21.112506.16436@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1993Jan25.182630.22949@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:42:42 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.182630.22949@cbnews.cb.att.com> eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (Piglet) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan21.112506.16436@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdb15@cl.cam.ac.uk writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan20.210928.10009@cbnews.cb.att.com> eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (Piglet) writes:
- >>>And a bad one, too. His scansion sucks! (No comment on what else
- >>>might engage in that kind of behavior...)
- >>
- >>Eh? It's perfect: iambic tetrameter followed by iambic trimeter.
- >
- >Perfect? PERFECT?? Yuck! Iambic pentameter, I might agree with you,
- >but this mish-mash of metrical impurity?
-
- Metrical impurity? It's absolutely bog-standard ballad metre. If I
- could remember any ballads I'd quote one at you. I'll quote a hymn
- instead:
-
- The Lord's my shepherd; I'll not want.
- He makes me down to lie
- In pastures green; he leadeth me
- The quiet waters by.
-
- >>Just a minute, aren't you the person who recently claimed on soc.singles
- >>that Douglas Adams invented the phrase "believe six impossible things
- >>before breakfast"?
- >
- >Nope. Uh uh. No way. Not me. I misread the verb--I thought we
- >were talking about _do_ing six impossible things before breakfast.
- >I wasn't thinking Red Queen, then, I was thinking Milliway's...
-
- Guilty as charged. Aha -- thinking of Lewis Carroll...
-
- The sun was shining on the sea,
- Shining with all his might;
- He did his very best to make
- The billows smooth and bright;
- And this was odd, because it was
- The middle of the night.
-
- Satisfied now?
-
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