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Originally posted by Alan Sullivan:
A note for Pat:
and THAT|was my LONG|SCYTHE WHIS|-per-ing TO|the GROUND.
A note for Mandolin:
What WAS|it it WHIS | pered? i KNEW | not WELL | mySELF;
These strike me as more likely.
A.S.
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I've got no quarrel with that, Alan, though to my ear, using the 4 level stress system, you don't quite get a spondee in the third foot of the first line, but a 3 on scythe and 4 on whis.
Tim Murphy -- I envy you those recordings.
I'm still interested to hear what Tim Steele has to say about elision in general, and it seems this poem might be a good starting place.