Re: Poetry in conlangs, was Re: Metrical Stress, Feet, etc.

Peter Bleackley scripsit:

> I know not if it be possible for a language tohave a favoured rhyðm, but
> ðe iambic pentameter was ðe form used in Scakespeare hisplays. Ðis
> would have had great influence on subsequent Englisc poets.
Nay, friend, say not so.  All men knoweð well, that Avon itsBard folwing
in ðe great Marlowe hisfootsteps, scorned ðe limping _Frensshe_ metre,
but wrote in ðe true _Saxon_ fasshion, being four stresses to ðe line
wið right and propere alyteracioun upon hem.

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