12-25-2013, 04:44 PM
(12-25-2013, 07:55 AM)crow Wrote: How would this scan:you can never /force/ something to scan certain way. it always scans the way it is pronounced. You can have awkward promotions and demotions du due to words and phrases not being in their best natural order, but that is something else entirely. no amount of preceding metrical lines will force a botched line to conform to the normative meter; and I think that's what you're asking.
"f(you)
Would it scan? I like it because one take on the first part would read kinda like, "F* you. Why you suffering?" Can I force it to scan a certain way by seating it in a standard form?
Thanks, crow
Great hahaha the forum won't let me post the syntax. Let's try this . . .
Well, now it works . . .
As for scanning this line...
F(you)
that's the best I can offer...but it's probably better to point out that the line is confusing--no one will get it or be sure how to read or say it--and it does not belong in a poem.

