#Anapest

[willknightauthor]

A BREATH IN THE DARK

[onearthwerebrieflygorgons]

In December we always read certain old stories,

Familiar poems, the tales of the glories

Of Christmases long, long ago

But it seems all these stories have something they share

A linguistic particular usually rare

That somehow evokes winter snow

For all of the poets, from Clarke Moore to Seuss,

Have decided to put to remarkable use

A meter unlike all the rest

Using two unstressed syllables, stressing the third,

Ocassional iambs to highlight a word,

But the bulk of it's all anapests!

[creatediana]

"Unwell" - a poem in rimas dissolutas written 5/23/2024

[wumblr]

oh great HR is texting me. they must REALLY be under a hiring freeze lol

[tyrnn]

DracariOctober #15

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[rudysassafras]

Binary Feet

Ternary Feet

[jewfrogs]

been working on a translation of seneca’s medea for no real reason other than procrastination (adapting what i did in class into a proper translation) and i love what i’ve done with the place but i don’t know what to do with this

[stastrodome]

Ave Caesar Tetramatus (IV)

I’m not fighting for grace or in love with St. Fig But I hope to get fit for a stylish new wig For the herald of hark, for the rum in my nog For the Jasperest Johns on my Pinterest blog

[willknightauthor]

THE BEGGAR

[amphitheresarewingednoodles]

Does anyone know if there's like a website where you can put in poetic patterns and it tells you if there's a name for it? E.g. "(weak-Strong)x7 (-A) / (weak-Strong)x7 (-A)" = "Fourteener couplet" "wSwwSwwS (-A) / wSwwSwwS (-A) / wSwwS (-B) / wSwwS (-B) / wSwwSwwS (-A)" = "Limerick"

[ymnes-odde]

Hymn for Pyriscent Seeds 1:1-6

From the teeth of the rats I will flee no more, to converse at some length with the stones— to discern when to burn and renew, renew— for my song it is long overdue! While fore'er they may gnaw on the bones, my bones, they have lost what my flesh may restore.

-transmitted by the lingering swarm-mind of an ancient thinkwright to the crew of the independent starship Queen of Argyll before the mind's destruction by wildfire.

[prokopetz]

I wonder how much the usage statistics for online poetry dictionaries are being skewed by folks specifically looking for anapestic five-syllable words beginning with UN- and ending with -L.

[creatediana]

With some help, I’m awake, But I sift through a daze. I have passed through the ache But not all through the haze. I need sedatives now, I need stimulants then. They are all I know how To be conscious again.

"Life As It Is" - a poem written 4/27/2020

[aroace-number-eight]

I'm supposed to be asleep right now, why am I analyzing the lyrical structure of Rasputin according to what I know about poetry so I can create lyrics that follow the same beat and pattern for a nonsensical LL parody

[jewfrogs]

can we hear about the really good title for a fic?

yes! but disclaimer: when i say “really good” i mean “right up my alley, and not anybody else’s.” the title is acephalous Hipponacteans with double choriambic expansion (a description of the meter of sappho 58v)

i don’t know what this would “mean” or why i’m drawn to this as a title but i can see. i can picture. some slow methodical overwrought character study with my silly poetic language. lovely

(honestly any & all complicated metrical terminology is gorgeous to me, mostly because i don’t understand them so they sound like mystical magic words to me. and i like that in a title. so maybe it’s less this specific one and more colometric categorizations in general….there’s something about nonsense like “trochaic tetrameter catalectic” or “telesillean with resolved first element” that does good things for me)

[stastrodome]

Milton’s Paradise Lost, condensed and in anapestic tetrameter.

With a heave from the heavens the Devil was home Then he talked to a woman all naked alone “With this Apple, I know, that there’s Eden to lose But I’m thinking of how all the sex will improve”