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The Rainbow Mythos: The Songcraft of Ronnie James Dio
Songs discussed in The Rainbow Mythos include:
Tarot Woman (lyrics here)
Rainbow Eyes (lyrics here)
Catch The Rainbow (lyrics here)
The Man On The Silver Mountain (lyrics here)
The Temple Of The King (lyrics here)
A Light In The Black (lyrics here)
Topics discussed include:
Brian Brodeur's new book, Some Problems With Autobiography
Katie Hartsock's new book, Wolf Trees
My episode on Brian Brodeur
Poetry lyric vs. Song lyric
Poetic vs. Mythopoetic
C.S. Lewis on George Macdonald
Juke-box musicals
A brief history of the mighty Dio
An Angel Is Missing by Ronnie and the Redcaps
Elf, Deep Purple, Rainbow, and Ritchie Blackmore
Black Sabbath, Dio, and Heaven & Hell
The rainbow motif
The myth of Icarus
The tragedy of civilization
The wheel keeps turning
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List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)