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flem
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response 50 of 94:
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Apr 9 16:35 UTC 2002 |
I wonder if it would be possible
to talk the local village idiot
into posting for us more of his
bad porn collection. Well, jp2?
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jp2
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response 51 of 94:
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Apr 9 16:36 UTC 2002 |
This response has been erased.
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brighn
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response 52 of 94:
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Apr 9 16:52 UTC 2002 |
Such porn would have to be rewrit in iamb.
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flem
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response 53 of 94:
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Apr 9 17:12 UTC 2002 |
And really, who can think of any more
intriguing way to while away the time?
In fact, I think I'll quit my job right now
and work full-time on writing metered porn.
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md
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response 54 of 94:
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Apr 9 17:27 UTC 2002 |
Pentameter pornography. Oh my.
And btw, I don't believe
I'm asking anyone for masterpieces,
or even better than they're doing here.
I only ask that you be kind, and leave
the lecturing on prosody to me --
if any lecturing there is to be.
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brighn
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response 55 of 94:
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Apr 9 17:54 UTC 2002 |
Ah, I see. We're to be kind, and you be mean?
By what credentials do you ask us this,
and why deign you to lecture only me?
Have you monopoly on this item here?
Do those who break the rules to lecture suit
your tastes? If your request was merely,
"Let's be nice, and focus on our own"
you'd not have named but only one, instead
you would have named not one at all. Indeed.
For after all, I think I deigned to speak
of prosody to those who deigned to scold
us at the first. In fact, I've asked us once
to stop the metaverse, but no... it's me
you chose to paint conservative, dear sir.
(Perhaps it is this simple, now I think:
I am more fun to get into a snit,
because I'm wont to snit within the rules
and so a scold to me will keep the tone
of item this, but scolding others just
derail the thread... if it be Mike's desire
to focus on the point of item this,
then sure, his goal is met within my rage.)
(And yes, I know that "item this" is forced,
as are some other turns of phrase I use.
But I don't care, I'm having fun. So there!)
So Mr. D., I offer you this truce:
No more will I to scold the others here
if you to me direct no more attacks
upon my attitudes about iamb.
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md
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response 56 of 94:
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Apr 9 22:04 UTC 2002 |
Okay okay okay okay okay,
already. If your first response
hadn't found fault where none existed, in
my item text (alright, the sixth line starts
with only half a foot, and "fav-o-rite"
should probably be "fav'rite" in the seventh --
so sue me), I don't think I would've cared.
Your versifying, I repeat, I have
no problem with (although I do believe
a feminine line-ending now and then
might help prevent such difficulties as
"to focus on the point of item this."
There is no reason why you couldn't say,
"to focus on the subject of this item").
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remmers
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response 57 of 94:
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Apr 9 23:11 UTC 2002 |
I think this item wallows a bit much
in self-examination. I suggest
that we look outward and instead discuss
such topics of the day as might appeal:
the Middle East for instance, or depression,
or the imminent emergence of that season
which among all four is much my favorite.
Sir Michael so suggested at the start,
At cost of rhyme I must endorse such art.
Spring soon shall be sprung, I feel it deep
inside my soul, a fresh awakening
of the senses. Each year there comes
this time in which my spirit is imbued
with new life, a long-term lease renewed.
(Apologies for rhyme twice-posted here.)
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brighn
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response 58 of 94:
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Apr 10 01:08 UTC 2002 |
Mike, you have a point, the fault was mine.
I do apologize for that first post.
I did draw first, um, blood after all.
That said, and yours, I shall concur with John.
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gelinas
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response 59 of 94:
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Apr 10 04:34 UTC 2002 |
I wish I could in iam write.
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jaklumen
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response 60 of 94:
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Apr 10 09:30 UTC 2002 |
no joke.
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flem
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response 61 of 94:
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Apr 10 15:03 UTC 2002 |
To add another meta prefix to
this meta-verse (to coin a phrase): I feel
the self-examination remmers cites
(though, truth be told, "self-consciousness" might well
have been more accurate, but would have failed
to scan) shouldn't necessarily
be thought of as a negative. For one,
when md in a recent post suggested
brighn could solve some tricky metrical
entanglements with feminine-ending lines,
I suddenly achieved enlightenment.
Now, if only someone would explain
exactly what the word "enjambement" means...
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oval
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response 62 of 94:
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Apr 10 15:29 UTC 2002 |
i wonder why one thinks he can't iamb
when all you have to do is count to five
at least that's how i think of it but still
i know my verse is not that poetic.
i had a dream last night that made me feel
strange confused and now i have to ask
a baby grand in front of me that held
the music of a most peculiar song
my former teacher smiling laughing asks
for me to play these notes that made no sense.
you see, the time signature was six nine
with dotted quaters getting beats of three
a sixteenth linked with a dotted eith note
would translate something like a tripolette
while triplettes carried three beats which explains
the 'ninth' note getting one beat of the six
i have to ask does this make any sense?
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brighn
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response 63 of 94:
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Apr 10 16:39 UTC 2002 |
Flem has shown one need not know the meaning
of a word to use it in self-
reference, as I have chosen to stop
being so retentive re: my iambs.
For your info, "enjambement" is when
a phrase extends beyond a line of verse.
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remmers
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response 64 of 94:
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Apr 10 17:19 UTC 2002 |
Regarding 62, it seems to make
some sense. However, I've not seen
a signature like that in my whole life.
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brighn
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response 65 of 94:
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Apr 10 17:45 UTC 2002 |
An amendment onto sixty-three:
Another online source informs me
that "enjambement"'s when a thought is bro-
ken up between the lines, not any phrase.
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blaise
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response 66 of 94:
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Apr 10 17:58 UTC 2002 |
I think you'll find, Ms. Oval, that the iamb
refers to the stress and not the length of the line.
Pentameter is what proclaims that five
iambs be used in each and every line.
If we were to use an extra iamb in a line
we would be using hexameter, I thought.
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md
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response 67 of 94:
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Apr 10 18:26 UTC 2002 |
It's time for my enjambement limerick,
which I will enter even though it's not
pentameter, iambic or whatever:
Enjambement is fine, in its place,
But not in a limerick. The pace
Of the meter is badly
Disrupted and, sadly,
You end up with egg on your face.
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brighn
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response 68 of 94:
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Apr 10 19:35 UTC 2002 |
Of sixty-six, some trivia: What song
is writ, in part, in iambed MONOmeter?
(There may be more than one; the one I mean
is very famous, though... you all should know it.)
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oval
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response 69 of 94:
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Apr 10 22:08 UTC 2002 |
i wonder if the song is kumba-ya
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orinoco
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response 70 of 94:
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Apr 10 23:44 UTC 2002 |
I think "The Sweater Song," by Weezer, is.
(At least, the verses are.) Dunno if that's
the song that Paul was hinting at or not.
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mcnally
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response 71 of 94:
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Apr 11 00:37 UTC 2002 |
I take "monometer" to mean one metric foot per line. Neither of the
songs named fits that description..
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brighn
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response 72 of 94:
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Apr 11 04:03 UTC 2002 |
To wit: "Bus stop / wet day / she's there / I say"
And then: "Bus stop / bus goes / she stays / love grows"
But, as I said, this is "in part," not all.
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mcnally
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response 73 of 94:
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Apr 11 06:58 UTC 2002 |
Yes, as you've obviously left out all of the "under my umbrella" parts
to strengthen your case..
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md
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response 74 of 94:
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Apr 11 10:26 UTC 2002 |
But "Bus Stop" sounds dactylic, not iambic.
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