Unusual Words and Their Uses

[ChristopherSea]

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.