Re: [lojban] metre

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

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.

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