From jcowan@reutershealth.com Sun Sep 29 20:19:56 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_4); 30 Sep 2002 03:19:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 55447 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2002 03:19:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 30 Sep 2002 03:19:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.151) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 30 Sep 2002 03:19:55 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA14767; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:31:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200209300331.XAA14767@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:19:22 +4400 Subject: Re: [lojban] metre To: nessus@free.fr (Lionel Vidal) Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:19:22 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com (Lojban@Yahoogroups. Com) In-Reply-To: <008801c26796$56127240$ef2af8c1@ftiq2awxk6> from "Lionel Vidal" at Sep 29, 2002 10:57:00 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan Lionel Vidal scripsit: > - a metre is a whole paragraph (in french it is called a poetic 'verset', "Stanza". > To take the latin example again, before Virgile, the native metre was > thought to be the 'vers saturnien', but after Virgile, the > 'hexametre dactylique' (sorry I don't know the english glosses for > technical poetic terms), Just what you'd think, for once: Saturnian verse, dactylic hexameter. > In other words, write good enough poetry, and the metre you chose > will be the native one :-) Indeed. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." --Isaac Newton