[New-Poetry] How would you scan this line?

Michael Snider mandolin at mikesnider.org
Thu Jul 2 19:07:37 EDT 2009


one last try, since I haven't been able to reproduce the weirdness
after restarting --

anapestic tetrameter, as others have said. But the words make anapests
because of the whole line - the same words tweaked only after the 7th
syllable make a perfectly regular IP line:

But our love, it was stronger far than that.

My apologies for all the noise

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:21 PM, <Rsgwynn1 at cs.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 7/2/2009 12:02:58 PM Central Daylight Time,
> chris at chrislott.org writes:
>
> How would you scan this line?
>
> But our love it was stronger by far than the love
>
> c
>
> Anapestic tetrameter.
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