From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Sep 15 18:55:03 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:55:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EG5RO-0007qG-8H for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:55:03 -0700 Received: from ms-smtp-02.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.41] helo=ms-smtp-02-eri0.texas.rr.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EG5RK-0007q1-Nl for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:55:01 -0700 Received: from hypermetrics.com (cpe-66-68-164-156.austin.res.rr.com [66.68.164.156]) by ms-smtp-02-eri0.texas.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j8G1spe1025395 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:54:52 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <432A25EB.3020801@hypermetrics.com> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:54:51 -0500 From: Hal Fulton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] metrical poetry in Lojban? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 2088 X-Approved-By: hal9000@hypermetrics.com X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: hal9000@hypermetrics.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners My impression is that metered poetry would be difficult in Lojban... especially if you're "strict" about it as I tend to be. How about it? Can someone come up with a couple of good lines of iambic pentameter, a nice heroic couplet maybe? I'm not too picky about male vs. female endings as long as they are mostly correct and there are not many extra syllables in the middle. Cheers, Hal