[New-Poetry] Stress -- WAS: I hate everyone with an MFA

[Mike Snider]

On Wednesday, September 27, 2006, at 03:22PM, Robin Hamilton <robin.hamilton2 at btinternet.com> wrote:

>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 
>

You're right, of course. I get a little blinkered sometimes.



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