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(02-26-2014, 02:44 AM)fogglethorpe Wrote: From Dictionary.com..
Sciamachy-
\ sahy-AM-uh-kee \ , noun;
1.an act or instance of fighting a shadow or an imaginary enemy.
I dream in sciamachy.
(02-26-2014, 02:20 AM)milo Wrote: (02-26-2014, 02:05 AM)ChristopherSea Wrote: (02-26-2014, 01:18 AM)milo Wrote: pshaw
Octasyllabically
Christopher Sea challenged
all of us poets to
write formal verse.
Fitting ridiculous
opposite concepts like
anticontrarian -
ism , what's worse?
Ha ha, bravo!
points for guessing the form.
Double points for using the other in the same form.
Some sort of Quatrain? No, I think it is a Violette
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this is one of my favorite words simply because it makes me laugh. It was partially invented by James Joyce:
UNTONSURED
tonsured is obviously a well known word and needs no definition and, therefore, nor does the prefixed version.
from Ulysses by James Joyce:
"Stephen Dedalus, displeased and sleepy, leaned his arms on the top of the staircase and looked coldly at the shaking gurgling face that blessed him, equine in its length, and at the light untonsured hair, grained and hued like pale oak."
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ha, rhupunt. Google is my friend:From thepoetsgarret
Quote:the Rhupunt. This form consists of three, four, or five, lines, of four syllables: A. A. A. B. The next stanza rhymes: C. C. C. B. and so on. It will be seen that the last lines of each stanza rhyme.
nah, I jumped the gun, thought is was 3, 4 or 5 feet, I'm close.
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(02-26-2014, 02:46 AM)ChristopherSea Wrote: (02-26-2014, 02:44 AM)fogglethorpe Wrote: From Dictionary.com..
Sciamachy-
\ sahy-AM-uh-kee \ , noun;
1.an act or instance of fighting a shadow or an imaginary enemy.
I dream in sciamachy.
(02-26-2014, 02:20 AM)milo Wrote: (02-26-2014, 02:05 AM)ChristopherSea Wrote: Ha ha, bravo!
points for guessing the form.
Double points for using the other in the same form.
Some sort of Quatrain?
No, it is a fixed form requiring a very specific meter and rhyme (as well as one other strange rule that I subverted.)
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(02-26-2014, 03:08 AM)milo Wrote: (02-26-2014, 02:46 AM)ChristopherSea Wrote: (02-26-2014, 02:44 AM)fogglethorpe Wrote: From Dictionary.com..
Sciamachy-
\ sahy-AM-uh-kee \ , noun;
1.an act or instance of fighting a shadow or an imaginary enemy.
I dream in sciamachy.
(02-26-2014, 02:20 AM)milo Wrote: points for guessing the form.
Double points for using the other in the same form.
Some sort of Quatrain?
No, it is a fixed form requiring a very specific meter and rhyme (as well as one other strange rule that I subverted.)
A Violette?
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farding:
Ellajam was farding while driving to work. I was in the car with her and told what a great job she had done. "Very tasteful", I said!
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sciamachy
I dream in sci amachy (accented syllable in bold)
I live in a fantasy
Could be accentual meter with one foot per line. That may not be what you had in mind, but that is what it could be 
Dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
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(02-26-2014, 03:27 AM)Erthona Wrote: farding:
Ellajam was farding while driving to work. I was in the car with her and told what a great job she had done. "Very tasteful", I said!
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sciamachy
I dream in sciamachy (accented syllable in bold)
I live in a fantasy
Could be accentual meter with one foot per line. That may not be what you had in mind, but that is what it could be
Dale
What about dream and live?
But that isn't the poem, the discussion got mashed, look for the verse that starts "octasyllabically"
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(02-26-2014, 03:27 AM)Erthona Wrote: farding:
Ellajam was farding while driving to work. I was in the car with her and told what a great job she had done. "Very tasteful", I said!
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sciamachy
I dream in sciamachy (accented syllable in bold)
I live in a fantasy
Could be accentual meter with one foot per line. That may not be what you had in mind, but that is what it could be
Dale
Ha, I rarely fard, and never in the car. 
(02-26-2014, 02:20 AM)milo Wrote: (02-26-2014, 02:05 AM)ChristopherSea Wrote: (02-26-2014, 01:18 AM)milo Wrote: pshaw
Octasyllabically
Christopher Sea challenged
all of us poets to
write formal verse.
Fitting ridiculous
opposite concepts like
anticontrarian -
ism , what's worse?
Ha ha, bravo!
points for guessing the form.
Double points for using the other in the same form.
Double Dactyl?
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(02-26-2014, 03:43 AM)ellajam Wrote: (02-26-2014, 03:27 AM)Erthona Wrote: farding:
Ellajam was farding while driving to work. I was in the car with her and told what a great job she had done. "Very tasteful", I said!
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sciamachy
I dream in sciamachy (accented syllable in bold)
I live in a fantasy
Could be accentual meter with one foot per line. That may not be what you had in mind, but that is what it could be
Dale
Ha, I rarely fard, and never in the car.
(02-26-2014, 02:20 AM)milo Wrote: (02-26-2014, 02:05 AM)ChristopherSea Wrote: Ha ha, bravo!
points for guessing the form.
Double points for using the other in the same form.
Double Dactyl?
Double Mangelwurzel? (My last answer was Violette, but no confirmation has me guessing at this point)
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(02-26-2014, 03:43 AM)ellajam Wrote: (02-26-2014, 03:27 AM)Erthona Wrote: farding:
Ellajam was farding while driving to work. I was in the car with her and told what a great job she had done. "Very tasteful", I said!
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sciamachy
I dream in sciamachy (accented syllable in bold)
I live in a fantasy
Could be accentual meter with one foot per line. That may not be what you had in mind, but that is what it could be
Dale
Ha, I rarely fard, and never in the car.
(02-26-2014, 02:20 AM)milo Wrote: (02-26-2014, 02:05 AM)ChristopherSea Wrote: Ha ha, bravo!
points for guessing the form.
Double points for using the other in the same form.
Double Dactyl?
double dactyl is correct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dactyl
well done. Now we need someone to do a practice thread.
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Sorry, I see now, I missed the original post, and was responding to "I dream in sciamachy" as that was all I saw.
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(02-26-2014, 04:28 AM)Erthona Wrote: Sorry, I see now, I missed the original post, and was responding to "I dream in sciamachy" as that was all I saw.
Dale
Still, a pretty cool couplet!
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(02-26-2014, 04:21 AM)milo Wrote: (02-26-2014, 03:43 AM)ellajam Wrote: (02-26-2014, 03:27 AM)Erthona Wrote: farding:
Ellajam was farding while driving to work. I was in the car with her and told what a great job she had done. "Very tasteful", I said!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
sciamachy
I dream in sciamachy (accented syllable in bold)
I live in a fantasy
Could be accentual meter with one foot per line. That may not be what you had in mind, but that is what it could be
Dale
Ha, I rarely fard, and never in the car.
(02-26-2014, 02:20 AM)milo Wrote: points for guessing the form.
Double points for using the other in the same form.
Double Dactyl?
double dactyl is correct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dactyl
well done. Now we need someone to do a practice thread.
I searched rhyme scheme abcd efgd. So where are my points? Are they brownie points? Can I trade them in for a cookie?
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(02-26-2014, 04:37 AM)ellajam Wrote: (02-26-2014, 04:21 AM)milo Wrote: Double Dactyl?
double dactyl is correct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dactyl
well done. Now we need someone to do a practice thread.
I searched rhyme scheme abcd efgd. So where are my points? Are they brownie points? Can I trade them in for a cookie?
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Pretty smart. 1 cookie for you. Two cookies if you write one . . .
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(02-26-2014, 06:16 AM)milo Wrote: (02-26-2014, 04:37 AM)ellajam Wrote: (02-26-2014, 04:21 AM)milo Wrote: Double Dactyl?
double dactyl is correct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dactyl
well done. Now we need someone to do a practice thread.
I searched rhyme scheme abcd efgd. So where are my points? Are they brownie points? Can I trade them in for a cookie?
Pretty smart. 1 cookie for you. Two cookies if you write one . . .
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Octasyllabically
Christopher Sea challenged
all of us poets to
write formal verse.
Fitting ridiculous
opposite concepts like
anticontrarian -
ism , what's worse?
Ah, Dum-da-da, Dum-da-da. 'Two stanzas, each comprising three lines of dactylic dimeter followed by a line consisting of just a choriamb ( ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ ).'
Doesn't Octasyllabically have one too many syllables?
I'm lost...
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(02-26-2014, 07:49 PM)ChristopherSea Wrote: (02-26-2014, 06:16 AM)milo Wrote: (02-26-2014, 04:37 AM)ellajam Wrote: double dactyl is correct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dactyl
well done. Now we need someone to do a practice thread.
I searched rhyme scheme abcd efgd. So where are my points? Are they brownie points? Can I trade them in for a cookie?
Pretty smart. 1 cookie for you. Two cookies if you write one . . .
Octasyllabically
Christopher Sea challenged
all of us poets to
write formal verse.
Fitting ridiculous
opposite concepts like
anticontrarian -
ism , what's worse?
Ah, Dum-da-da, Dum-da-da. 'Two stanzas, each comprising three lines of dactylic dimeter followed by a line consisting of just a choriamb ( ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ ).'
Doesn't Octasyllabically have one too many syllables?
I'm lost...
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No, it is 6 syllables - two perfect dactyls. OCTasyl LABbiccally
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(02-26-2014, 10:56 PM)milo Wrote: (02-26-2014, 07:49 PM)ChristopherSea Wrote: (02-26-2014, 06:16 AM)milo Wrote: I searched rhyme scheme abcd efgd. So where are my points? Are they brownie points? Can I trade them in for a cookie?
Pretty smart. 1 cookie for you. Two cookies if you write one . . .
Octasyllabically
Christopher Sea challenged
all of us poets to
write formal verse.
Fitting ridiculous
opposite concepts like
anticontrarian -
ism , what's worse?
Ah, Dum-da-da, Dum-da-da. 'Two stanzas, each comprising three lines of dactylic dimeter followed by a line consisting of just a choriamb ( ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ ).'
Doesn't Octasyllabically have one too many syllables?
I'm lost...
No, it is 6 syllables - two perfect dactyls. OCTasyl LABbiccally
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Do you say it bi-cly and not bi-cal-ly? My dictionary has the latter, yielding oc-ta-syl-lab-i-cal-ly. Is Merriam-Webster wrong again? (this is why I can't do metered poetry).
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(02-27-2014, 01:03 AM)ChristopherSea Wrote: (02-26-2014, 10:56 PM)milo Wrote: (02-26-2014, 07:49 PM)ChristopherSea Wrote: Pretty smart. 1 cookie for you. Two cookies if you write one . . .
Octasyllabically
Christopher Sea challenged
all of us poets to
write formal verse.
Fitting ridiculous
opposite concepts like
anticontrarian -
ism , what's worse?
Ah, Dum-da-da, Dum-da-da. 'Two stanzas, each comprising three lines of dactylic dimeter followed by a line consisting of just a choriamb ( ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ ).'
Doesn't Octasyllabically have one too many syllables?
I'm lost...
No, it is 6 syllables - two perfect dactyls. OCTasyl LABbiccally
Do you say it bi-cly and not bi-cal-ly? My dictionary has the latter (this is why I can't do metered poetry).
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(Its so tough to find a good lexicophrapher these days)
Because of English language stress patterns it is very difficult to pronounce syllabically with 5 syllables as it forces an additional stress onto either cal or ly which sounds ridiculous when you say it.
How do you pronounce metrically?
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(02-27-2014, 02:20 AM)milo Wrote: (02-27-2014, 01:03 AM)ChristopherSea Wrote: (02-26-2014, 10:56 PM)milo Wrote:
Octasyllabically
Christopher Sea challenged
all of us poets to
write formal verse.
Fitting ridiculous
opposite concepts like
anticontrarian -
ism , what's worse?
Ah, Dum-da-da, Dum-da-da. 'Two stanzas, each comprising three lines of dactylic dimeter followed by a line consisting of just a choriamb ( ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ ).'
Doesn't Octasyllabically have one too many syllables?
I'm lost...
No, it is 6 syllables - two perfect dactyls. OCTasyl LABbiccally
Do you say it bi-cly and not bi-cal-ly? My dictionary has the latter (this is why I can't do metered poetry).
(Its so tough to find a good lexicophrapher these days)
Because of English language stress patterns it is very difficult to pronounce syllabically with 5 syllables as it forces an additional stress onto either cal or ly which sounds ridiculous when you say it.
How do you pronounce metrically?
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Here, I am more apt to say: met-ri-cly! However, MW says it's met-ri-cal-ly.
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(02-27-2014, 02:26 AM)ChristopherSea Wrote: (02-27-2014, 02:20 AM)milo Wrote: (02-27-2014, 01:03 AM)ChristopherSea Wrote: No, it is 6 syllables - two perfect dactyls. OCTasyl LABbiccally
Do you say it bi-cly and not bi-cal-ly? My dictionary has the latter (this is why I can't do metered poetry).
(Its so tough to find a good lexicophrapher these days)
Because of English language stress patterns it is very difficult to pronounce syllabically with 5 syllables as it forces an additional stress onto either cal or ly which sounds ridiculous when you say it.
How do you pronounce metrically?
Here, I am more apt to say: met-ri-cly! However, MW says it's met-ri-cal-ly.
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exactly
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