10-21-2013, 08:46 AM
(10-21-2013, 08:07 AM)tigrflye Wrote: Todd,Alternating meter in a terza rima can be challenging because if the rhymes don't line up it tends to feel wrong. I once tried to get around that by alternating (anapaestically) 4-3-4, 3-4-3, etc but I am not sure it worked.
Thank you.
Milo: Hm, is it better for me to play dumb and just ask your opinion of how I should morph my poem into a terza rima.. or openly admit that is what I was trying to do... all by myself with no one to help me (can u tell?) I thought the only rules were A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C, D-E-D etc. with no limit to the number of lines and end with e d-e-d-e or d-e-d e e. (i tried this one) Does the last line have to repeat? And i read iambic pentameter was prefered but no definate rhythm HAD to be used. I did purposely write it with 4 feet, 4 feet, 5 feet, 4, 4, 5.. cuz hey, i thought it sounded nice, but I can feel your disapproval. Haha. Dang it, if I'm gonna hang out here, I need to go back to college.
As for the definition, when I first learned about terza rima I was told you needed a minimum of 5 stanzas and then the envoi but you could cheat and write a terza rima sonnet which was only 4 stanzas and an envoi (14 lines) which looks something like this . . . Oh crap, looks like I deleted that one, well, if you want to see one I can produce it later. Anyway, if the definition changed than mea culpa.