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Unread 05-12-2014, 07:17 PM
Julie Steiner Julie Steiner is offline
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Spot on, Roger! I absolutely admit to having written this! For every possible minute that I can get away with it. When are the authors unmasked?

I'm going to be really disappointed if I find out that her name isn't Uma, which was my best guess at puzzling out lines 11 and 12.

Then again, first-person narratives aren't always autobiographical, so I can imagine it's "Uma" to my heart's content.

[Edited to say--Or maybe Emma?]

[Never mind. Then the poem might be titled "The Trochee".]

[Actually, the stronger beat does come first, as described in the poem, in a trochee, not an iamb...but I'm probably being overliteral. Again.]

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