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Unread 07-13-2001, 06:40 PM
Timothy Steele Timothy Steele is offline
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Yes, it would seem (on merely descriptive grounds, if no other) that we could call "monosyllabic" the foot in the broken-backed line that lacks its metrically unaccented syllable.

Eliot's weave, weave line is a trickier, since it can scan as an imabic tetrameter and since the poem itself has quite a few other shorter-than-pentameter lines (2, 5, 8, 10, 13, 15, 19). This is somewhat the case in "Talking in Bed" as well, but there the poems seems pentametric (with the variations in lines 5 and 7) till the last two lines (a trimeter and dimeter).

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