Second Troachaic Poem
Fixing things is going out of style. People trash stuff rather than repair it. 'Cheaper!' they declare, enumerating reasons. 'Simpler!' 'More convenient.' 'Faster.' Also, we get out of practice...
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Is there any sort of rhyme scheme going on here or system? jc. I see rough slant rhymes maybe besides the couplet at the end, but it stands fine withtou rhyme really ; I love blank verse. The last...
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No, no rhyme system. I've been known to try to rhyme things so slant that no one else recognized it, but not this time. Thanks. Chelle
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Hi C tuff accent to pull off this. In fact I think L4 to be a syll over. L1 and 2 scan pretty well but the next 7 seems to flip/slip between iamb and amphibrachics (to me). I like the finale too but...
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Thanks, J. I wasn't going by syllables, but I read L4 as: REAsons. /'SIMpler!'/ 'MORE con/ VENient.'/ 'FASter.' - so five trochaic feet. (yeah, to me, convenient only has 3 syllables - con-ven-yent....
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You're right... tis only 3 from further looking... which I reckon is weird as I sonically must reasonably mouth 4 sylls (con/ven/i/ent or con/ve/ni/ent) or con/ve/nie/nt (also that T surely must carry...
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Fashion - that's a possibility. Thanks! Pondering extensions.
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I see possible metric variations when I read this, though you might not have written them with it in mind: Line Five starts with a Choriamb, and Line Eight seems to have an Iambic inver for the fourth...
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I'd never heard of a Choriamb before - so, no. I can't say I did it on purpose. But even having looked it up, I don't read it that way. To me, 'get' doesn't get a stronger beat than 'we'; so I read it...
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Yea, to me that line read ' AL-so, we GET'. Cus of the comma, it rolls trochaic when I'd read as if it wasn't there; but like I said I figured you wrote it as a trochee, and it's just fine. I'm from...
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Cool. I'd never written in trochees before, either. (As seen by the title - this is my second; the sonnet in the other thread is #3.) I thought it would be fun to try something different. Thanks for...
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