[New-Poetry] Questions on form

[Rsgwynn1 at cs.com]

In a message dated 1/1/2008 10:29:21 PM Central Standard Time, jfq at myuw.net 
writes: 
> 
> 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.
> 
I suggest you check your fingers.  Then consult an audiologist.   
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