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Re: [lojban] metre
- To: nessus@free.fr (Lionel Vidal)
- Subject: Re: [lojban] metre
- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- 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
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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