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Originally Posted by W T Clark
yes, "amIcably" is how I intended the music to fall.
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Ok, I have yet to find that pronunciation in an online dictionary, British or American, but it may be out there.
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Originally Posted by W T Clark
those who say one cannot have three unstressed syllables … I think here that they forget that one syllable can have a half, or lesser stress, compared to the thud that completes the foot.
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I’ve long thought it must be possible, since it happens all the time in speech. Cally pulled it off recently, and I think you did in your original of this poem. In the revision, for some reason, I want to stress “were” or “not,” making pentameter, but I’m ok with that.
I’ve just noticed the additional Lear reference in S3L2: “Nothing will come of nothing.”
I also get a resonance with “Man Carrying Thing,” though Stevens seems to expect some kind of zenlike direct experience after the storm, while you want to start naming things again. I tend to think humans cannot
not name things, so maybe I’m in your camp.
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