01-21-2013, 12:25 AM
(01-20-2013, 03:10 PM)Leanne Wrote: Drunkenly is more of dactyl: DRUNK en ly -- the 3rd syllable is stressed SLIGHTLY more than the second, but not really enough to drive the meter without a little bump. The stress alters depending on the words around it. As it is now, to say it with the meter I'm required to depress the "drunk" part of the word slightly to get it to even out. It is a very small scansion issue and most people wouldn't even notice it. I do only because that's my jobI see. If I say the word DRUNK-en-ly by itself, it comes out dactylic. I guess I'm promoting the stress of -LY because it comes right before a-CCUSE and I can hear a relative stress drop after -LY. Maybe it's the higher tone of the "ee" sound in DRUNK-en-ly versus the "uh" sound in a-CCUSE.
Has anyone ever tried to pioneer a trivalent metrical system that accounts for relative stress due to tone differences? "DaDUM DaDUM DaDee DaDUM DaDUM".