Hi again, David,
Looking again at the close, I hadn't spotted that S3L3 is tetrameter.
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Hi Carl,
Yes, I hear the last line as pentameter, promoting the "ing".
Apparently in the US (or at the least the part the OED sampled), there's a secondary-stress on "make". In the UK and presumably for the Manx, too, this is an unstressed syllable (though again, there may be regional variations). The former pronunciation maybe makes it unnecessary/unnatural to promote the third syllable -- as you don't three equally weighted consecutive syllables. But in that case, with the third syllable unpromoted, would that be three unstressed syllables? I guess I'd say it would be, "HAY | MAKing | and DREAMT- | ...", since in the second foot "MAK" would be noticeably stronger than "ing". At least if we're marking up relative stresses and not absolute stresses. But I guess that could just be down to scansions conventions we adopt.
Matt
Last edited by Matt Q; 03-07-2024 at 07:33 AM.
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