03-11-2016, 03:09 AM
Admittedly, most of my experience is still with Latin poetry, which has very strict rules of elision (and is often dactylic). English is much more fluid in that regard. Yet, I can't see why perilous corridors would elide into something like per'lous corridors. Or even worse, peril's corridors. In either case, corridors is still left as a dactyl, or a trochee if elided. From my memory, most English elision occurs when similar phonemes are next to each other. I'll double check that in a couple of hours, probably. -Edit- It occurred to me that you may have thinking along the lines of how many tend to elide the word "every" into "ev'ry." Typically, I like to mark that with an apostrophe, just so the reader isn't likely to read it incorrectly. That's preference though. In this case, I understand the idea of eliding "perilous" into "per'lous," but I don't think it reflects how people typically say it (at least in my area). I'll have to look into why I'm willing to accept "ev'ry" but not "per'lous." There may (or may not) be a good reason.
Honestly, I do think the material is very good, and I think it would benefit significantly from the mild forum. No pressure, though.
Honestly, I do think the material is very good, and I think it would benefit significantly from the mild forum. No pressure, though.
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"Or, if a poet writes a poem, then immediately commits suicide (as any decent poet should)..." -- Erthona
"Or, if a poet writes a poem, then immediately commits suicide (as any decent poet should)..." -- Erthona