Dear Vivek,
I was not talking about stress but about sylables(only) ... /dif rnt/ and /di
fe rent/ ; the first one entails stress, the 2nd, quantity. In Wordsworth's
"The difference to me" line ("She dwelt among the untrodden ways" -- last line)
the word is disyllabic if muttered quickly under the breath, and trisyllabic if
if read in an elongated sigh, in which case there is a secondary stress on the
3rd syllable.I believe that the 2 short vowels in the last 2 syllables is an
indication of that hurry through the 1st stress on 'diff' so that the verse can
keep the disyllabi pattern of the word and rush the emotion through to a quick
reconciling closure.
Again, Arnold (Thyrsis -- last 4 lines of 2nd stanza) has 'soft as spring' (d)
rhyming with 'heightening' (d) in a 10 line abc bca de ed structure ; but
'heightening' is disyllabic and truncates the line to 9 syllables - /'heigh ten
ing'/ in the Indian quantitative form would make it trisyllabic and restore the
pentametre, but that would be some violence!
Good exercise, this... and I haven't touched upon the stresses at all.!
I am not being doctrinaire; just pointing out that the terrain is treacherous.
As for some experimental poetry from me ... I am no poet at all.Yet -- try
the Parveen Sultana comp[osition 'Dey - tha - ba dha a aa aa aayee e" with
English ' whaat a pretty gi i ii ii ii rl". , ask some singer to do it.. It
migt be amazing.
Bye for now.
Subbarayudu
Vivek Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Well-- good stuff, you seem to know a thing or two about Indian metrical
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