In article <1157335468.540801.96490@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
omnivore_ink@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
There's a poem about Cortez standing on the Peak of Darien....actually
it was Balboa...but a two syllable name was needed for the rhyming
scheme, I guess...
Re: writing tight, how tight is right? ... Our current fashion is for naturalism,... In this case, since the work is a sonnet, the rhyme is almost ... And look at what Frost has done with the rhyme scheme:... much as a marionette reacts when its strings are pulled. ... (misc.writing)
Re: Problems with rhyming dictionaries ... that gave me the rhyming words I needed. ... (Of course, Marie differs in accent, also.) ... Midwesterners who rhyme Mary, marry and merry. ... As noted in a previous post, I pronounce 'fairy', 'furry', ... (rec.music.filk)
Re: writing tight, how tight is right? ... Our current fashion is for naturalism,... In this case, since the work is a sonnet, the rhyme is almost ... And look at what Frost has done with the rhyme scheme:... much as a marionette reacts when its strings are pulled. ... (misc.writing)
Re: Too Many Rhymes? ... There is a known quantity,the rhyming dictionary, now online. ... that rhyme was controlling the story being told. ...American, most outside the Folk idiom, & almost arbitrarily. ... The pale amanita and islip like blue ... (rec.music.dylan)
Re: Tempo and pacing ... it to do so with emphasis on the meaning rather than the structure -- don't hide the rhyme and rhythm, but don't get caught up in them either. ... you'll probably find that the meter isn't quite regular -- and that the irregularities are sometimes there to add their own emphasis rather than being due to the writer's carelessness. ... Some of Fred Small's songs have breaks which are too easily fixed to be anything but deliberate attention-focusers. ... (rec.music.filk)
