So, to boil things down to basics:
'di' meaning 'two'
'pod' from 'foot', meaning types of metric foot that can both be applied accurately to the
line/s in question.
????????????????
Anyone know any tripodic lines?
Roger
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From: "Roger Collett" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 6:54 AM
Subject: Re: Dipodic is...?
> Joanna found this yesterday while searching the web, and passed it on:
>
> http://jason-gray.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_archive.html
> <quote>
> Jason Gray:
> I began to read through Fenton's new Selected Poems (Penguin-Britain, forthcoming FSG in the
> States) to become more familiar with him. In a standout poem in the collection, "The Ballad of
> the Imam and the Shah," Fenton employs a dipodic meter, a term I was happily familiarized with
> at the reading - where a line can be read metrically two ways accurately. For example,
>
> From felony to felony to crime
> From robbery to robbery to loss
> From calumny to calumny to spite
> From rivalry to rivalry to zeal
>
>
> These are perfect iambic pentameter lines. However, especially when read aloud, they are
> trimeter lines as well, since the second and fourth beats of each line are weaker, and when
> read with the rhythmic emphasis the song-like nature of the poem intends, the trimeter nature
> of the line comes out.
> <unquote>
>
> Roger Collett
> Arrowhead Press
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