12-13-2011, 05:33 PM
Ballad-type writing is mostly how I wrote poetry when I first began 10+ years ago. Wouldn't abab be more exacting than xaxa, not less? (I've never seen xaxa written before I am assuming that means only the alternate line rhymes)
Does reversed syntax mean (something I find myself doing quite a lot) doing Yoda-speak?
(example below)
Hunger stalks the forest-gloom
in hide, in sett, in burrow deep,
waiting out the killing chill;
lucky ones in winter sleep.
Slight shift here. I think Leanne said something about there being a certain leeway in the ballad form since it was meant to be performed and this unevenness could be ironed out by the speaker.
I used to write rubbishy stuff at work to read out when people left - Pam Ayres stuff - when people said let me read it, I would always say 'No' because I knew it wouldn't read right when they did so.
Does reversed syntax mean (something I find myself doing quite a lot) doing Yoda-speak?
(example below)
Hunger stalks the forest-gloom
in hide, in sett, in burrow deep,
waiting out the killing chill;
lucky ones in winter sleep.
Slight shift here. I think Leanne said something about there being a certain leeway in the ballad form since it was meant to be performed and this unevenness could be ironed out by the speaker.
I used to write rubbishy stuff at work to read out when people left - Pam Ayres stuff - when people said let me read it, I would always say 'No' because I knew it wouldn't read right when they did so.