Talk:Amphibrach

I've been wondering about this:

Aren't limericks really constructed of three dactylic feet(loud soft soft), the last one being a catlectic (unfinished)?

So, instead of:

"There was a | young lady | of Wantage"

you would get:

"There |was a young| La dy of | wan tage"

Looking at musical notation, this would make a lot more sense. The musical 'one' is really on the strong beats. So the word "there" really is a type of up-beat, like you get at the beginning of a lot of music, both classical and popular.

The Leonard Cohen song would then be:

"It's |four in the |morning,  the  |end of De |cember, I'm writing  you |now just  to |see if  you're |better. New

York is (pause) |cold, but  I |like where I'm | living. There's

music on | Clinton Street |all through  the |evening."

This, in any case, better reflects the 3/4 time the music of the song is written in.

Just a thought.


 * Thing is, in music you put bar lines before the strong beats to show the performer where the strong beats are. In poetry this is not done, because it should be obvious from the natural stresses of the words. So there is no difference at all between a line of ^-^/^-^/^-^/^-^ and a line of ^/-^^/-^^/-^^/-^. 91.107.164.56 (talk) 00:22, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Remember, remember, the fifth of November
Does that use amphibrach? Here's my attempt at marking the stress:

^ - ^    ^ -  ^    ^   -     ^  ^  _ ^

Remember, remember, the fifth of November

^  _  ^  ^   _   ^   ^    _

The gunpowder treason and plot

_ ^  ^  _  ^   ^   _  ^  ^   _   ^

I see no reason the gunpowder treason

^     _  ^ _  ^  _

Should ever be forgot

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