Desmond you were not condescending it just that my little brain seems to switch off when faced with such technicalities -I go for the feel and sound of it 'I know what I like! :-)'
It all sounds very sexist to me I suppose masculine is sort of weak and floppy and feminine is tough fierce and bold! At least based on my experience
Ps I loved your poems are they based on mating calls/rituals
Feminine
ah eh ih o uh - as in: thAt - thEm - thIs - spOt - shut
Masculine
aye - ee - I - O - ewe - as in: wAy - wE - wIne - wrOte - flUte.
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Desmond Swords
Sent: 28 September 2009 22:15
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Subject: Re: Snap (with a flash)
Hello Patrick.
Sorry if i sounded condescending. When i read back what I had written, it is
clear why you would have got the wrong end of the stick because of my
imprecise attempt at sounding poetic.
~
Hello Alison.
The traditional meaning of masc and fem rhyme are below (from wiki)
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Perfect rhymes can be classified according to the number of syllables
included in the rhyme.
masculine: a rhyme in which the stress is on the final syllable of the words.
(rhyme, sublime)
feminine: a rhyme in which the stress is on the penultimate (second from
last) syllable of the words. (picky, tricky)
~
For years, until very recently, for some reason, I thought feminine and
masculine, in prosodic terms, meant what I call, feminine and masculine
stressed vowels, which don't exist as a technical term. I got the wrong end
of the stick somewhere along the way at the start of my training, and
thought my invention was part of ancient Greek prosody, when it was just my
own mind making it up.
Nevertheless, they are still useful terms, because:
Feminine stressed vowels are
ah eh ih o uh - as in: thAt - thEm - thIs - spOt - shUt
Masculine stressed vowels are
aye - ee - I - O - ewe - as in: wAy - wE - wIne - wrOte - flUte.
cheers
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