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Originally Posted by Glenn Wright
This results in a line of IP that scans: /— o / o o / — o / o — / o — /. (Trochee, pyrrhic, trochee, iamb, iamb).
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I do believe in spondees, but I’m a skeptic when it comes to pyrrhics, so I’d scan the new line as headless with an anapestic substitution in the fourth foot. In any event, it works for me now.
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Originally Posted by Matt Q
The concluding line, I find a little ambiguous, because "let" can be present or past tense. Does it mean, "I don't ever let them me know me", or "I didn't ever let them know me"? The latter seems more final, unchangeable, an opportunity missed, one more thing to regret.
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Originally Posted by Glenn Wright
I thought about the ambiguity of the verb “let” in the last line and decided that I liked it.
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The “ambiguity” never occurred to me in context. “Those I knew” places the N’s friends (and what they could have meant to each other) irretrievably in the past.