[New-Poetry] English Meter WAS: Some stuff about Alan Sondheim

[Anny Ballardini]

Do you have a name?
I can see that you are trying to help me, and wanted to thank you,

Anny

From: <jfq at myuw.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 11:51 PM
Subject: [New-Poetry] English Meter WAS: Some stuff about Alan Sondheim


> English meter is easy once you understand that there are three levels of 
> stressed syllables, one level of unstressed syllable, and that stress 
> varies depending on syllable weight and intonation although it is largely 
> fixed by vowel length and the presence and type of various terminal 
> consonant structures.
>
> which i suppose means it's very complicated to explain, but really, just 
> notice the four different stresses and it will all start seeming very 
> intuitive.
>
> I think that the bivalent stress analysis really confuses the issue and 
> makes the whole thing seem much more obscure than it really is.
>
>
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Anny Ballardini wrote:
>
>> Ah Hal,
>> your mail you could not be more appropriate in this moment for me. There 
>> is no _(no_ _no)_ way I can understand English meter.  I am willing to 
>> break my abstinence from medicines if there is 1 that can help me.
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: Halvard Johnson
>>  To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp;Views
>>  Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 10:10 PM
>>  Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] from Alan Sondheim:
>>
>>
>>  Isn't the meter off just a bit in line 17?
>>
>>
>>  Hal
>>
>>
>>  Serving the tristate area.
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>>
>>  Halvard Johnson
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