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

[James Cervantes]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:19 PM, <Rsgwynn1 at cs.com> wrote:

> In a message dated 7/23/2008 2:42:09 PM Central Daylight Time,
> skip at louisiana.edu writes:
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> Stressing is different with different readers, though basically the same.
> If we were reading
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> "An aged man is but a paltry thing "
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> with "aged" being 2 syllables, a dramatic interpretation might stress "is"
> in a performance, but a normal reading would not.


Try it aloud.  Still abnormal.  The only reason to stress "is" would be in
the context of an argument.

In "normal-speak" the rhymical AND rhetorical accent falls on "thing."


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