> OK so I'm wrong again!
> At least I'm not alone.
> Roger
Ah, depends which dipodic you mean, but. The term does seem to drift around
a bit, meaning something quite different (earlier) in classical quantitative
scansion, for instance.
I think Joe and I are both singing from the same hymn sheet (hm -- are hymns
dipodic?), but I've been stressing the origins while his latest neat post
directs towards the way it occurs in non-folk poetry.
[I'm unsure where to place the comment you forwarded from Joanna. If there
were an equivalent here to Dana Gioa among the New Formalists, it might just
be James Fenton. Except he's a bit too daring for them. Does Gioia mention
him anywhere, or stick to trying to rehabilitate Charles Causley?]
R.
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