That's the third time you've asked that question in this thread, Elise. It would seem that nobody else has a problem with mentioning the name Ann. But I can only speak for myself. I don't really see the issue.
By the way, I just happened to be glancing at a very old thread here at Eratosphere discussing an aspect of teaching meter to children, and Alicia Stallings suggested likening iambs to heartbeats. I was reminded that this is a familiar way of describing an individual heartbeat, so the title here is apt even if Ann's heartbeat followed by the fainter heartbeat of the speaker come together as a trochee.
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Apropos missed/dismissed, I suppose they are technically non-rhyming if one speaks in perfectly delineated syllables, but I tend to blend the "s" into the "m" so it's more like rhyming "missed" with "smissed", which is a perfect rhyme.
Last edited by Roger Slater; 05-13-2014 at 11:26 AM.
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