I sat with a phrase today that I couldn't resolve to myself:
"[...] Mildred is a cat [...]"
In Steele's 1-2-3-4 stress notation, my ears get
MIL - dred - is - a - cat
to be one of these
4 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 3
4 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 3
How would you resolve this into a meter?
If I am mistaken about Mildred, how would you in general resolve a 4-2-2-2-3 phrase into meter?
Timothy: If you read this, know that I am that Norwegian guy on the board who is trying to figure out English meter.
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Svein Olav
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