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Unread 10-08-2014, 11:52 PM
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Barb,

As Susan has pointed out, "The Pine Planters" is accentual dimeter. Other, more famous examples include Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Moriturus" and Elizabeth Bishop's "Sonnet (1979)".

Gregory is correct about the paucity of amphibrachs ("de DUM de") in poetry but modern song has provided two conspicuous examples: Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (amphibrachs throughout) and Leonard Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat" (which begins and ends in amphibrachs).

HTH,

Colin
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