"a group of two feet, esp., in accentual verse, in which one of the two
accented syllables bears primary stress and the other bears secondary
stress." says dictionary dot com.
that's just either iambic or trochaic verse isn't it?
"accentual verse" is a fun way to put it, I've always called it
formal/metric poetry. or boring poetry. ;)
KS
PS. that's partly a joke, since e.g. Dylan Thomas does formal poetry
inexplicably well; I've just always disliked strict form, metric patterns
for instance, because I figure why limit yourself when the artform's magic
is in its boundlessness? of course, widening the bounds is another kind of
magic. a rare kind. another part of it is that the poetry of folks like
Kipling/Tennyson/Coleridge/Browning et al. has always rubbed me the wrong
way for its archaic language & seeming lack of inventiveness. or a lack of
the kind of inventiveness I've come to respect & treasure. anyway, don't
mean to sidetrack.
On 23/01/07, Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Ok, who is going to define 'dipodic' for those of us less enlightened?
>
> (Yes, I did look with Google and came up with various mentions of it
> but no actual definitions. Learnt a lot of other nice new words though!)
>
> Janet
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> > Many folksongs & blues employ dipodic modes. Not a no-no at all in my
> book.
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