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Learning the Secrets of English Verse
Topics discussed in this episode include:
-Go buy Learning the Secrets of English Verse!
-My episode, The Idea Of A Poetry Conservatory
-Poetry as skill
-The Fitzgerald system of scansion
-Parallelism, Syllabics, Loose Iambics, Stress-counting, rhyme-driving, sprung rhythm, oh my!
-"All the Fun's In How You Say A Thing" by Timothy Steele
-Sonnets don't cure polio, but they're pretty great.
-Rhyme Royal, Ottava Rima, Spenserians, Onegin, oh my!
-L'dor Vador
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My favorite poetry podcasts for:
Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets
Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says
The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight
Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
Art by David Anthony Klug
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 (/ /)