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

Ray Brown scripsit:

> >By contrast, the easy
> >poetics of English involve 4-stress lines, alliteration, and half-rhyme.
>
> And interestingly half-rhyme has remained in folk verse, playground chants
> etc.
Likewise the 4s line, especially if we treat a (musical) pause as a stress:

	Diddle-diddle dumpling
	  My son John (p)
	Went to bed with his
	  Stockings on. (p)

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A witness cannot give evidence of his           John Cowan
age unless he can remember being born.          jcowan@reutershealth.com
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