Sunday, June 17, 2007

Ideals and rules to follow posting here

A quote:

Iambic five-beat lines are labeled blank
Verse
(with sometimes a foot or two reversed,
Or one more syllable--"feminine ending").
Blank verse can be extremely flexible:
It ticks and tocks the time with even feet
(Or sometimes, cleverly, can end limping) . . .
--John Hollander Rhyme's Reason.

An alexandrine fits the plan a time or two,
while substitutions should be less than ten percent,
and Beat-offbeat scansion's favored here,
for ease of cut-n-paste and mousey edits.

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