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I don't even know what I'm saying...damn...
Okay let's see if this makes sense? Because I'm not very good at vocalizing...but here's a try:
L1 Iambic pentamter
L2 is still iambic but the ictus is carried over to the next line
L3 Which I guess becomes trochaic, but this is where the problem comes in, because in the last line I left the unstressed foot there and carried the stress over
L4 ect...does the same thing but inverted and returns to iambic?,
but basically through the whole thing I'm subtracting a syllable but still keeping it accentual through each line...see this is the whole problem, I don't really know what I'm doing, all I know is that I think of the whole thing as iambic, but I don't know if some lines are trochaic or if they're iambic because of this form of modulation that I'm using....ie the carrying over of the stressed or unstressed foot to the next line?
by Deadpoetsmilk on June 25 2007