Unusual Words and Their Uses

[ChristopherSea]

From Dictionary.com..

Sciamachy-
\ sahy-AM-uh-kee \ , noun;
1.an act or instance of fighting a shadow or an imaginary enemy.

I dream in sciamachy.

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pshaw

Octasyllabically
Christopher Sea challenged
all of us poets to
write formal verse.

Fitting ridiculous
opposite concepts like
anticontrarian -
ism , what's worse?

Ha ha, bravo!

points for guessing the form.
Double points for using the other in the same form.

Some sort of Quatrain? No, I think it is a Violette

[shemthepenman]

this is one of my favorite words simply because it makes me laugh. It was partially invented by James Joyce:

UNTONSURED

tonsured is obviously a well known word and needs no definition and, therefore, nor does the prefixed version.

from Ulysses by James Joyce:

"Stephen Dedalus, displeased and sleepy, leaned his arms on the top of the staircase and looked coldly at the shaking gurgling face that blessed him, equine in its length, and at the light untonsured hair, grained and hued like pale oak."

[ellajam]

ha, rhupunt. Google is my friend:From thepoetsgarret

the Rhupunt. This form consists of three, four, or five, lines, of four syllables: A. A. A. B. The next stanza rhymes: C. C. C. B. and so on. It will be seen that the last lines of each stanza rhyme.

nah, I jumped the gun, thought is was 3, 4 or 5 feet, I'm close.

[milo]

From Dictionary.com..

Sciamachy-
\ sahy-AM-uh-kee \ , noun;
1.an act or instance of fighting a shadow or an imaginary enemy.

I dream in sciamachy.

---

Ha ha, bravo!

points for guessing the form.
Double points for using the other in the same form.

Some sort of Quatrain?

No, it is a fixed form requiring a very specific meter and rhyme (as well as one other strange rule that I subverted.)

[ChristopherSea]

From Dictionary.com..

Sciamachy-
\ sahy-AM-uh-kee \ , noun;
1.an act or instance of fighting a shadow or an imaginary enemy.

I dream in sciamachy.

---

points for guessing the form.
Double points for using the other in the same form.

Some sort of Quatrain?

No, it is a fixed form requiring a very specific meter and rhyme (as well as one other strange rule that I subverted.)

A Violette?

[Erthona]

farding:

Ellajam was farding while driving to work. I was in the car with her and told what a great job she had done. "Very tasteful", I said!
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sciamachy


I dream in sciamachy (accented syllable in bold)
I live in a fantasy

Could be accentual meter with one foot per line. That may not be what you had in mind, but that is what it could be


Dale

[milo]

farding:

Ellajam was farding while driving to work. I was in the car with her and told what a great job she had done. "Very tasteful", I said!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
sciamachy


I dream in sciamachy (accented syllable in bold)
I live in a fantasy

Could be accentual meter with one foot per line. That may not be what you had in mind, but that is what it could be


Dale

What about dream and live?
But that isn't the poem, the discussion got mashed, look for the verse that starts "octasyllabically"

[ellajam]

farding:

Ellajam was farding while driving to work. I was in the car with her and told what a great job she had done. "Very tasteful", I said!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
sciamachy


I dream in sciamachy (accented syllable in bold)
I live in a fantasy

Could be accentual meter with one foot per line. That may not be what you had in mind, but that is what it could be


Dale

Ha, I rarely fard, and never in the car.

---

pshaw

Octasyllabically
Christopher Sea challenged
all of us poets to
write formal verse.

Fitting ridiculous
opposite concepts like
anticontrarian -
ism , what's worse?

Ha ha, bravo!

points for guessing the form.
Double points for using the other in the same form.

Double Dactyl?

[ChristopherSea]

farding:

Ellajam was farding while driving to work. I was in the car with her and told what a great job she had done. "Very tasteful", I said!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
sciamachy


I dream in sciamachy (accented syllable in bold)
I live in a fantasy

Could be accentual meter with one foot per line. That may not be what you had in mind, but that is what it could be


Dale

Ha, I rarely fard, and never in the car.

---

Ha ha, bravo!

points for guessing the form.
Double points for using the other in the same form.

Double Dactyl?

Double Mangelwurzel? (My last answer was Violette, but no confirmation has me guessing at this point)

[milo]

farding:

Ellajam was farding while driving to work. I was in the car with her and told what a great job she had done. "Very tasteful", I said!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
sciamachy


I dream in sciamachy (accented syllable in bold)
I live in a fantasy

Could be accentual meter with one foot per line. That may not be what you had in mind, but that is what it could be


Dale

Ha, I rarely fard, and never in the car.

---

Ha ha, bravo!

points for guessing the form.
Double points for using the other in the same form.

Double Dactyl?

double dactyl is correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dactyl

well done. Now we need someone to do a practice thread.

[Erthona]

Sorry, I see now, I missed the original post, and was responding to "I dream in sciamachy" as that was all I saw.

Dale

[ChristopherSea]

Sorry, I see now, I missed the original post, and was responding to "I dream in sciamachy" as that was all I saw.

Dale

Still, a pretty cool couplet!

[ellajam]

farding:

Ellajam was farding while driving to work. I was in the car with her and told what a great job she had done. "Very tasteful", I said!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
sciamachy


I dream in sciamachy (accented syllable in bold)
I live in a fantasy

Could be accentual meter with one foot per line. That may not be what you had in mind, but that is what it could be


Dale

Ha, I rarely fard, and never in the car.

---

points for guessing the form.
Double points for using the other in the same form.

Double Dactyl?

double dactyl is correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dactyl

well done. Now we need someone to do a practice thread.

I searched rhyme scheme abcd efgd. So where are my points? Are they brownie points? Can I trade them in for a cookie?

[milo]

Double Dactyl?

double dactyl is correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dactyl

well done. Now we need someone to do a practice thread.

I searched rhyme scheme abcd efgd. So where are my points? Are they brownie points? Can I trade them in for a cookie?
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Pretty smart. 1 cookie for you. Two cookies if you write one . . .

[ChristopherSea]

Double Dactyl?

double dactyl is correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dactyl

well done. Now we need someone to do a practice thread.

I searched rhyme scheme abcd efgd. So where are my points? Are they brownie points? Can I trade them in for a cookie?

Pretty smart. 1 cookie for you. Two cookies if you write one . . .
[/quote]


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...

[milo]

double dactyl is correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dactyl

well done. Now we need someone to do a practice thread.

I searched rhyme scheme abcd efgd. So where are my points? Are they brownie points? Can I trade them in for a cookie?

Pretty smart. 1 cookie for you. Two cookies if you write one . . .

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...

[/quote]
No, it is 6 syllables - two perfect dactyls. OCTasyl LABbiccally

[ChristopherSea]

I searched rhyme scheme abcd efgd. So where are my points? Are they brownie points? Can I trade them in for a cookie?

Pretty smart. 1 cookie for you. Two cookies if you write one . . .

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
[/quote]

Do you say it bi-cly and not bi-cal-ly? My dictionary has the latter, yielding oc-ta-syl-lab-i-cal-ly. Is Merriam-Webster wrong again? (this is why I can't do metered poetry).

[milo]

Pretty smart. 1 cookie for you. Two cookies if you write one . . .

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).
[/quote]

(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?

[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.

[milo]

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?

Here, I am more apt to say: met-ri-cly! However, MW says it's met-ri-cal-ly.
[/quote]

exactly