12-05-2025, 04:12 AM
(12-05-2025, 12:36 AM)Mostly Holy Wrote: What a lovely poem! I think you have nailed the meter, tho I tend to want to read "A melody so true." as two iambs followed by a Pyrrhic, or a soft iamb, "ME-lo-DY" naturally carries two heavy stresses I think, and if you wanted to make it firmly iambic trimeter, perhaps you could swap "true" for a word that ends on a mute, to force a heavier stress there?Thanks .
Ill look at ending with a mute . May be tricky to fit the rhyme scheme .
I could make it more contrasting to illustrate a change(winters melody) Or use a dash.
I am just trying to better grasp Scansion which is how i noticed it .
I don't mind the way it reads at all. It makes sense there, but i want to learn from it.
Thanks again !
I see it now . I think it is a soft iamb "so true"

