Tag: Accentual-Syllabic

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We are going to ease into the accentual-syllabic poetry with the Heroic Sestet. In previous discussions, we have talked about the five metrical systems. We have practiced syllabic poetry with the triolet and accentual poetry with Old Story Measure. We also talked about rhyme and ways to make it less Suessish. We talked about the […]

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Most formal or traditional poetry is written in metered verse. So, what exactly is being measured, and how? The answer to that tends to depend on the language and time period. For a simplified set of examples, the ancient forms of the languages Greek and Sanskrit had a different idea of long and short vowels […]

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