[R. S. Gwynn]

https://themillions.com/2019/03/the-...tzpyw-0RSpCxyA

Please forgive one embarrassing typo in the article.

[Ted Charnley]

Sam,

My many thanks for this;
it made me reminisce.

So, "trimester" for "trimeter?"

Ted

[Allen Tice]

Now that I'm back to counting syllables and scanning for elisions in Latin (my first such war earned me an M.A. in Psychology on the English language syllable counts of an otherwise loovely, loovely psychological test of sentence completions to standard stubs), I found this hilarious, especially the first fower (4) paragraphs.

[Claudia Gary]

Somewhere near the beginning of each of my classes and workshops, I always mention that there are no poetry (or meter) police.

My students have always been relieved and amused.

Now you’ve ruined that, Sam.

[R. S. Gwynn]

I just ordered Saintsbury's Historical Manual of English Prosody for my Kindle. It was free. This probably says something about the marketplace for books on prosody.

[R. S. Gwynn]

This is about as serious a discussion of prosody as we're likely to get these days: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...ems-to-america

I've often said that it's no real chore to take a page of IRS instructions and convert it into blank verse.