UnderYourSpell
Gerund Whore
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oh well will have to do them myself then
My 30/30 today is a form from the linked site. The Diminished Hexaverse is an easy form. It was great fun to write.
One that I walked away from because of counting syllables! Well done both!
See what we can find on the morrow?
Reminds me of a Gunfight I was involved in, we had to write a ballad (in an hour) that included made up words! I won by a landslide
We need more gunfights it's been too long!
Well, don't count on me for anything involving made up words in English... I'd need about four hours for a four line stanza.
I don't understand this ....... you've made up loads of words in your Vogon
[COLOR="Red"]
[B]* / * * / * * /[/B]
a | flic|ker|ing | flame, | on | the | wall
[B] * / * / * / * /[/B]
the | sound | of | a, | co|yo|tes | call
[B] * / * / / * * /[/B]
the | des|ert | winds, | sing|ing | at | night
[B] / * / * / * / *[/B]
sand|storms | dan|cing, | in | the | moon|light
[B] * / * / * / * /[/B]
em|bra|cing | lov|ers, | to | be|fall[/COLOR]
Yes, but at what cost? I'd take part in such a "gunfight" anyway, of course, but in all honesty, it was far more difficult for me to make up words than to write the sestina.
I wanted to try something with meter now, but it seems like either I can't tell what the stressed / unstressed syllables are, or the examples on the page don't exactly follow the metre they're supposed to be using. E.g., the following poem is a Quintella, and as such it is supposed to follow a iambic tetrameter (notation by me; * - unstressed, / - stressed):
Code:[COLOR="Red"] [B]* / * * / * * /[/B] a | flic|ker|ing | flame, | on | the | wall [B] * / * / * / * /[/B] the | sound | of | a, | co|yo|tes | call [B] * / * / / * * /[/B] the | des|ert | winds, | sing|ing | at | night [B] / * / * / * / *[/B] sand|storms | dan|cing, | in | the | moon|light [B] * / * / * / * /[/B] em|bra|cing | lov|ers, | to | be|fall[/COLOR]
Is my notation correct?