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From: John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: [lojban] Re: {zdile} mi na nelci zo bai
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--- Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> Robin:
> 
>> mi na nelci zo bai
>> mi cu nelci zo mai
>> .e zo nai .e zo doi .e zo cai
>> 
>> ku'i le rempai
>> poi finti zo bai
>> .e zo cau .e zo mau .e zo rai
>> 
>> se catra mi .ai
>> te va'u je kai
>> lo ka mi ba tcetce gleki sai 
>>
>> "it's also the only one I've seen that
>>maintains rhyme 
>> and meter throughout"
> 
> 3- it doesn't exactly maintain rhyme and meter.
> Syllable 
> counts are 6-6-9 5-5-9 5-5-9, and do you want
> to stress 
> "ZO doi E zo CAI" to match "TCEtce GLEki SAI"?
> 
A previous go-round on Lojban poetry suggested
(and argued convincingly for) that Lojban meter
was a matter of *stressed* syllables per line,
the unstressed ones being permitted to run to
(almost, I suppose) any length. By that standard
we have (assuming words after {zo} are stressed)
2-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-0-2.  I assume there are some
further stress rules that bring this more into
line, but it is still not quite on.