Meter Ditties |
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General Rhythms |
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| The iamb saunters through my book, Trochees rush and tumble, While the anapests run like a murmuring brook, Dactyls are stately and classical. Kirk Summers |
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General Rhythms |
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| Coleridge: Trochee trips from long to short. From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks; strong foot! yet ill able Ever to come up with Dactyl trisyllable. Iambics march from short to long. With a leap and a bound the swift Anapests throng. Janice Siegel Temple University |
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Galliambic |
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| Rather ugly Galliambics trickle off in a run of breves. I am just as I am but with a limp: scazon. Christopher M. Brunelle |
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Dochmiacs |
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| The wise kangaroos Prefer leather shoes.
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Dactylic Hexameter |
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| Be kind to our web-footed friends For a duck may be somebody's mother... (Sung to the tune of "Stars and Stripes
Forever) Down in a deep dark ditch sat an old cow chewing a beanstalk. Alice P. Radin |
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Alexandrine |
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| Alexander Pope That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along Bruce S Thornton Fresno State |
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Trochaic septenarius |
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| In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of
love. David M. Schaps Department of Classical Studies Bar Ilan University |
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Dactylic Pentameter |
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| Up with a rush came lunch-- breakfast, dinner and tea! Alice P. Radin |
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