Iambic Tetrameter


"Ned Ludd" <nedludd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Sanford Manley" <manley20@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Ned Ludd said:
>> >
>> > You cannot kill a weed,
>> > Unless you take its root.
>> > The tallest of the trees,
>> > Proceeds from tiny shoot.
>> >
>> > The root that dives to darkest earth,
>> > As if to seek to die,
>> > Supports the highest leaf that soars
>> > In sunlit summer sky.
>> >
>> > - Ned
>>
>> Damn almost like Emily.
>>
>> I would change the sixth line to:
>>
>> "As if seeking to die,"
>>
>
> Thank you, Sandy. The way I read my poems it would
> require that I pronounce the word seeking with the
> emphasis on the second syllable.
>
> Ned

Very nice, Ned, very nice. And

"As if to seek to die."

has the right stresses as you wrote it,
three iambs.

George



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