Re: The Melting: Agatha
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Monday, May 26, 2003, 4:14 |
John L. Leland scripsit:
> The Agatha Christie poem is (part of?) a double dactyl (the line separation
> for the first line should come after "to" which is the second unstressed
> syllable of the second dactyl.).
Sure it's a double-dactyl: see .sig below. But who wrote it?
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Long-short-short, long-short-short / Dactyls in dimeter,
Verse form with choriambs / (Masculine rhyme): jcowan@reutershealth.com
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