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From: "wild honey press" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: any formalists...
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> You mentioned the controversy that any attempt at scansion provokes. I'm
> inclined to treat the scansion like writing a score. In music, there are
> all sorts of conventions which allow one to write a reasonably crude
> representation of the rhythms and it is understood that various liberties
> are to be taken. (Of course, there are very literal notaters too, but I
> feel this approach is less interesting.) I wonder if scanners in poetry
> were less interested in producing THE scansion, would the results be more
> consensual in a parallel way.
>
> best
>
> Randolph
Now that's *my take on scansion! Syncopation, rests, and tied notes across
the barline an' all. And not averse to a little plainsong where suitable.
Fluid but not loose. It's what happens if you learn your prosody as a child,
out of the hymnbook and the psalter.
joanna
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