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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? -- Long-short-short, long-short-short / Dactyls in dimeter, Verse form with choriambs / (Masculine rhyme): jcowan@reutershealth.com One sentence (two stanzas) / Hexasyllabically http://www.reutershealth.com Challenges poets who / Don't have the time. --robison who's at texas dot net