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Poetic Research #3

Sat Mar 22, 2008, 6:22 PM
  • Mood: Shame
  • Listening to: Anything with lots of red notes
  • Reading: G.K. Chesterton
  • Playing: Audiosurf
I'm a bit late with this one, last night I stumbled upon a game by the name of Audiosurf and ended up neglecting my poetic duties to collect colored bars. But there was good music involved, so it's all ok.

Tonight I return to my study, and it's gonna be a long night.

Because I'm studying the spondee, molossus and the bacchius. Consisting of long-long, long-long-long and long-long-short, respectively, the two provide a rare but striking drumbeat effect. Lepanto by G.K. Chesterton provides an example.

White founts falling in the Courts of the sun,
And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run;
There is laughter like the fountains in that face of all men feared,
It stirs the forest darkness, the darkness of his beard;
It curls the blood-red crescent, the crescent of his lips;
For the inmost sea of all the earth is shaken with his ships.

See if you can spot the molossi, bachii and spondii (:D) in my study of the foot.

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  • Current Residence: Mississippi
  • Interests: Poetry, Literature, Film and Video Games
  • Favourite genre of music: Whatever helps me write
  • Favourite poet or writer: Changes daily, but Alexandre Dumas gets an honorable mention.
  • Personal Quote: I'll fill this in once I've got something worthwhile.
  • Tools of the Trade: Whiskey and failed relationships. Also, self-importance.

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