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Kvetched in Stone: The Art of Epigram Pt. 1
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Topics discussed include:
Bright Soft Things (Crashaw Essay)
The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse trans. Christopher Childers
Asclepiades 6
Zonas 9
Argentarius 26
Martial 5.73, 1.73, 3.65
"Prayer" by George Herbert
"Cold Turkey" by Joshua Mehigan
"Upon the Body of Our Blessed Lord, Naked and Bloody" by Richard Crashaw
"To Our Lord, Upon the Water Made Wine," by Richard Crashaw
"God is my Final End" by Angelus Silesius
"The Rosebud Has No Why" by Angelus Silesius
"Why Do I Exist?" by Daniel Brown
"On My First Son" by Ben Jonson
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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 (/ /)