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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA 
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It's Donna's fault this time, folks... She says she can't get her iambics to bond with her pentameters... So we're going to help her. We're doing Blank Verse... That's simple - The only rule is that every line has to be written in Iambic Pentameter... but the poem itself doesn't rhyme. And for those who insist on rhyming, per request of LP - We'll do a Sestina We can do this, yes??? Happy Holidays, Deck the Halls, Hark the Herald Angels Sing and all that fun stuff...  |
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Titia Geertman Member Ascendant
since 2001-05-07
Posts 5182Netherlands |
Geeze I forgot. Iambic Pentameter is that: da DUM da DUM??? No rhyming? meaning a da DUM da DUM da DUM free verse? That's easy  ?????MARGE.....I'll come out and play with you, hold my place free in the sandbox. Easy..ahum da DUM we have to write Don't know if I can do it though We're not supposed to rhyme In every single line da DUM da DUM da DUM Ok ok I'll start gathering apples LOL Titia Like scattered leaves...my words will flow |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
I have it on good authority that Prairie Inkwells is barging in to play along... as for me... iambic pentameter...blank verse...ack! blank mind...da-da-dumming... |
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Not A Poet Member Elite
since 1999-11-03
Posts 3885Oklahoma, USA |
No Sunshine, da-da-dum would be anpest, not iambic  hehehe |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
SEE? |
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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Well, this is such a silly thing to do. Iambic without rhyme? It makes no sense! I love to write iambic when I can But, if it doesn't rhyme, then what's the use?  |
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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Hey, Pete! What's an anpest? Can bug spray kill it?  |
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Gentle Spirit Member Patricius
since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989 |
ummm.......ok...... basics 101........lol...... define and give an example of iambic  .......and all that good stuff, as I am totally confused now. *groans* and kicks myself for asking to darn many questions....... rhyming I can do, syllable count I can do....but good grief!! Iambic pentameter??? Ok......I'm on it......but hey.......HELP!!!! {please......} |
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Local Parasite
since 2001-11-05
Posts 2527Transylconia, Winnipeg |
Gentle Spirit - to write in meter, quite a task might seem but, rest assured, it can be done with ease pentameter can seem itself quite "blank" without the grace of rhyme or more technique the trick is just to learn to tame your brain. if you can think in iambs, all is well... and watch your feet, that they are counted five with this in mind, I'm sure that you'll be fine.  |
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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Gentle Spirit.....my reply was in iambic, as was Local Parasite's. Study the flow of every other syllable being accentuated and you will have it... that's ALL i-AM-bic REAL-ly HAS to BE ...... --- ..-- ... ---- .. --- .. -- |
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Bridget Shenachie Senior Member
since 2002-01-23
Posts 1056Kansas USA |
i'm IN a-GAIN, for WHAT it's WORTH, Dear NAN. the GEN-tle SPI-rit VOL-un-TEERED for POEMS that SCAN. may I have CRED-it IF i AL-so RAN? Shenachie |
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SmartChick Member Rara Avis
since 2001-09-23
Posts 7081On A Journey To The Unknown |
I think I did this once with rhyme, after several tries. Maybe I can do it again.  Marge, Titia may I come out and play in the sandbox, too?[This message has been edited by SmartChick (12-03-2002 08:14 AM).] |
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Local Parasite
since 2001-11-05
Posts 2527Transylconia, Winnipeg |
so Nan... what's a Sestina? |
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Not A Poet Member Elite
since 1999-11-03
Posts 3885Oklahoma, USA |
Oops, that's anApest  Darn fingers sometimes don't work.Hey Mike, just go ahead and write your usual then randomly change the last word of each line. If it still rhymes after that then email it to me and I'll have a shot at fixing it for you. If that don't work then we have several folks in CA who can write without rhyming. Hi Nan. I guess I can try a sestina Pete Never express yourself more clearly than you can think - Niels Bohr [This message has been edited by Not A Poet (12-03-2002 10:18 AM).] |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
I'm OUT of HERE for SURE!(I made that up, Titia don't believe me.) You guys really have to "get real", first you want teach me to da dum, now you want it to abruptly stop? I give up and have decided to just be original. Hey wait a minute, something tells me I am.  I pass, now y'all have fun unrhyming your rhyme. |
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Local Parasite
since 2001-11-05
Posts 2527Transylconia, Winnipeg |
Pete, you cruel, cruel man you... you've taken the word Anapest (a dactyl), and made it Anpest (a trochee), correcting yourself by making it anApest (an amphibrac)... As if these people weren't confused enough about meter... yeesh! |
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Gentle Spirit Member Patricius
since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989 |
LP.......a what........and a what.......and what?????????? Now I am really confused!!  |
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vlraynes Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-25
Posts 8229Somewhere... out there... |
da-BUMP/da-BUMP/da-BUMP/da-BUMP/da-BUMP  [This message has been edited by vlraynes (12-17-2002 12:57 PM).] |
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