11-05-2013, 03:06 AM
(11-04-2013, 10:14 PM)Heslopian Wrote: Thank you very much for your in-depth analysis and critique, jdeirmaid, it's very helpfulNo problem. After scanning again, lines 1 and 4 are the only ones that seem to me to break with the pentameter.I was aiming, overall, for iambic pentameter, but I may have tortured it a touch
The dancing was a funeral dance around the grave once the body had been buried.
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