[Clive Watkins]

Dear Tim

I wonder if there is a risk of confusing our discussion of trimeter by employing the term “nervousness”, as you do in sharing Tim Steele’s opinion of this line. (Bruce follows you in this respect.) I suspect – though I am not able to ask him – that by “nervousness” Tim Steele meant something closer to “tension” or “agitation”. For me, “nervousness” implies something rather different, a fearful hesitancy, let us say.

So, when I wrote above of “nervous insistence”, it was to tension or agitation that I was referring. I apologize if I have unwittingly misled anyone.

Regards

Clive