When poets explode

[milo]

segmented 4/3 heptámetron
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Yeah, you could look at it that way, but... nope. No sense complicating what has been known as ballad measure for at least 500 years.

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...

yah, at least no one questioned that the theme to Gilligan's Island is the standard to which all rock should be measured, then we'd have a fight!

Realising that true "ballad meter" or "common meter" is always iambic, what do we call 4-3-4-3 anapestic? Just segmented anapestic heptamatron 4/3?

I tried to write a tersa rima like that. It came out . . . strange.