06-19-2013, 10:05 AM
(06-19-2013, 09:32 AM)milo Wrote:Thank you man, I should be paying you.(06-19-2013, 09:19 AM)Brownlie Wrote:It actually alternates 3 - 4 - 3 which is pretty uncommon for a villanelle though 4 - 3- 4 is common enough. I always called this anapestic trimeter/tetrameter but with a common iamb sub to start and foreshortened. Recently I have heard some refer to it as amphabrics and though it lines up nicely, I am not sold.(06-19-2013, 08:52 AM)milo Wrote: I think you can do this, at least take a guess and i will tell you you're wrong.Some sort of tetrameter and lines that are eleven syllables
Here is what I know of writing in meter (summed up):
1. Modern English verse is written with 4 metric choices: iambic, trochaic, anapestic, dactyllic.
2. Following are conscious acceptable subs: spondees, Pyrrhics (rare), iambs, trochees
3. Everything else is for metric analysis /not/ for writing.
Now these rules are probably not 100% accurate, but they are so close as to be usable
. I think other forms may be for other languages or they would have to be read a certain way, but this is wikipedia inspired knowledge.

