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Fitzgerald Strikes Back: Rothman's Rebuttal
Topics discussed in this episode:
-Email me your questions!!
-Cameron's substack, "Minor Tiresias"
-My poem, "At Woodlawn" in Merion West
-My poem, "Aztec Support" in Light
-My episode on Learning the Secrets of English Verse
-"Missing Measures" and "All the Fun's In How You Say A Thing" by Timothy Steele
-De Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum
-"Notes On Metre" by Otto Jespersen
-The Trager-Smith school of linguistics
-The Halle-Keyser theory of prosody
-Paul Kiparsky
-Seymour Chapman
-"The Rhythms of English Poetry" by Derek Attridge
-"The Origin of Writing" by Roy Harris
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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 (/ /)