In "Musing on Mastery" there is a delightful thread by this name:
Het Met.
What rules-of-thumb do you have for heteronomical meter? What has proven itself to work over time? I have - as noted before - seen oSooSooSoS (iamb-anapest-anapest-iamb) as the base meter of a line quite frequently in Norwegian poetry. More adventurous varieties seem to work as well. But there must be some limit at which structure is strained so much that it dissolves into chaos. So ... any rules-of-thumb?
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Svein Olav
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