Barry Gawd counting syllables what a ghastly soul destroying jobby -hope you
survive !!cut beat thwack the poor poem ugh!!!!!!!!!!
P the peasant
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Sent: 23 March 2011 15:33
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Subject: Re: snap: night thoughts
Well, Max, I counted syllables, but though 10 lines with 6 syllables each
predominate in the count, I can't find an overall pattern in the stanzas and
assume you're not writing syllabics. Although Yvor Winters' interest in
Elizabeth Daryush and Robert Bridges as writers of syllabics comes to mind
for the first time in ages. Plus my own memory snap of Winters and Janet
Lewis walking across campus with their Airedales: "true or imagined?"
Barry
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:56:24 +1100, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
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>Waking at night,
>besieged by memories,
>I hear the clock chime
>the hours and half-hours,
>
>put my mind to making
>sentences, counting
>the syllables, hoping
>next day to jot them down.
>
>Memory snaps they may be,
>and who to check them with? -
>now that my sister's gone -
>true or imagined?
>
>no-one's here or anywhere
>to gainsay what I say.
>That's the old ones -
>as for more recent years,
>
>memories of them seem -
>sparse, colourless,
>neither here nor there...
>
>
>
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