[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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