04-07-2014, 04:30 AM
Yes I like the joke although I had heard it before as:
What's better than roses on a piano?
Tulips on an organ!
"Your breakdown has cleared my thinking and will help others, too."
Well I don't know about that, but I feel as though I must defend the use of accentual verse to counterbalance all of the meter Nazis that are around, plus, besides the pun infest garden, I thought your use of the form was both solid and clever and needed to be exposed. In the end, meter may, and I say this conditionally, may be harder to write, but accentual is much harder to critique as it is much more than counting the syllables and then saying unstressed/stressed however many times.
Dale
What's better than roses on a piano?
Tulips on an organ!
"Your breakdown has cleared my thinking and will help others, too."
Well I don't know about that, but I feel as though I must defend the use of accentual verse to counterbalance all of the meter Nazis that are around, plus, besides the pun infest garden, I thought your use of the form was both solid and clever and needed to be exposed. In the end, meter may, and I say this conditionally, may be harder to write, but accentual is much harder to critique as it is much more than counting the syllables and then saying unstressed/stressed however many times.
Dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.