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Nan
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0 posted 2002-12-01 08:19 PM


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...

© Copyright 2002 Nancy Ness - All Rights Reserved
Titia Geertman
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1 posted 2002-12-01 08:48 PM



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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2 posted 2002-12-02 01:38 PM


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...

Not A Poet
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3 posted 2002-12-02 02:18 PM


No Sunshine, da-da-dum would be anpest, not iambic

hehehe

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4 posted 2002-12-02 02:42 PM


SEE?
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5 posted 2002-12-02 05:52 PM


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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6 posted 2002-12-02 05:54 PM


Hey, Pete! What's an anpest? Can bug spray kill it?
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7 posted 2002-12-02 07:18 PM


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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8 posted 2002-12-02 07:46 PM


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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9 posted 2002-12-02 09:01 PM


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
...... --- ..-- ... ---- .. --- .. --


Bridget Shenachie
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10 posted 2002-12-02 11:41 PM


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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11 posted 2002-12-03 08:06 AM


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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12 posted 2002-12-03 09:29 AM


so Nan...

what's a Sestina?  

Not A Poet
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13 posted 2002-12-03 10:17 AM


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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14 posted 2002-12-09 01:25 AM


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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15 posted 2002-12-09 02:42 AM


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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16 posted 2002-12-09 08:31 AM


LP.......a what........and a what.......and what??????????
Now I am really confused!!  

vlraynes
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17 posted 2002-12-17 12:57 PM



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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