07-20-2013, 08:34 AM
(07-20-2013, 08:27 AM)rayheinrich Wrote: segmented 4/3 heptámetronYeah, you could look at it that way, but... nope. No sense complicating what has been known as ballad measure for at least 500 years.
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Although that's only true if the songs use iambs. Take Stairway to Heaven, for example -- mostly alternating anapestic tetrameter/trimeter... now, if only Jim and Bob had tried a villanelle now and then, they might have stayed in obscure poverty like the rest of us true geniuses...
It could be worse
