[New-Poetry] Stress -- WAS: I hate everyone with an MFA
Robin Hamilton
robin.hamilton2 at btinternet.com
Wed Sep 27 15:17:49 EDT 2006
From: "Mike Snider" <mandolin at mac.com>
> And however many phonological stress-levels there are in English, there's
> only stressed and unstressed in English A/C poetry (except dipodics), and
> they dance with phonological stress.
Neatly put! I'm glad I'm not the only person who insists on considering
dipodics.
But the "only stressed/unstressed" point would apply to the various
varieties of stress metres as well as syllable accent metres, nah?
Humpty Dumpty
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