[New-Poetry] Re: a dead ear for scansion

[Anny Ballardini]

Logically,
"nights" is plural...
:-(
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  From: Anny Ballardini 
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  Christian Bok stresses every single thing!
  And I am with you in saying there is no time for scansion, especially with (by now) four or five sleepless night (the ones I am piling up....
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    But in a normal (non dramatic) reading, we don't stress "is" as much as "man" or "but." Maybe an actor might stage "is" loud as part of his interpretation, but no normal reading (even with a length caesura) would stress it as much.



    The world is too much with us late and soon.





    The only one would stress "much" would unstress the previous tow syllable and he's probably an old hippie . ;)



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    In a message dated 7/23/2008 11:11:46 AM Central Daylight Time, chris.lott at gmail.com writes: 



    an aged man is but a paltry thing,
    a tattered coat upon a stick, unless




    I'd scan both of these as more or less regular I5.





    and






      u    /   u   /      /       /     u   /     u   /



    Thy life a long dead calm of fixed repose;



    One spondee for an iamb.

      u       /        u     /        /         /        /        /    u   /



    and strains from hard-bound brains, eight lines a year





    Two spondees in a row.  Pope also illustrates the slow-down effect in:

    When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw




    How do you (or anyone else) scan them?


    You could always attend the West Chester Poetry Conference, Chris!

    Sam

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