11-20-2012, 04:10 PM
:p
Metric units don't have to make a regular pattern -- everyone has "speech patterns" and we can apply scansion to them (and then argue endlessly about what scansion method/ notation we're using, then bop each other on the head with a bust of Coleridge). Good public speakers, for example, always exploit meter and other sonic devices -- even if they're not aware that's what they're doing.
When you break it all down, meter is really just the art of getting the emphasis to fall in the right places so your words have an impact.
Metric units don't have to make a regular pattern -- everyone has "speech patterns" and we can apply scansion to them (and then argue endlessly about what scansion method/ notation we're using, then bop each other on the head with a bust of Coleridge). Good public speakers, for example, always exploit meter and other sonic devices -- even if they're not aware that's what they're doing.
When you break it all down, meter is really just the art of getting the emphasis to fall in the right places so your words have an impact.
It could be worse