[New-Poetry] Questions on form

[Chris Lott]

On Jan 1, 2008 7:28 PM, Jason Quackenbush <jfq at myuw.net> wrote:
> I count "William," "different" as a three syllable words and "beautiful"
> and "Everyone" as four syllable words. so there are four lines in this
> that have eight syllables. which is what i mean by "shoehorning" which
> is what you have to do if you want to say that every line here is in
> regular 7 syllable units. and you have to do that if you want to use
> traditional bivalent scansion toaccount for what feels like the
> regularity in this.

That's 4 for 4 in syllable counts being different from mine.. William
and different are 2 syllable words in my mouth, beautiful and everyone
are 3... I'll have to start listening more closely, but I can't think
of anyone I know who adds the extra syllable in there when speaking.
Or I just don't hear them :)

c
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Chris Lott