name: Aura Heart, Beating Blood
nen type: enhancement, transmutation
the user bind their aura to their red blood cells and causes it to be released with oxygen into their body, causing each of their cells to be greatly enhanced with aura but of course having less external aura to be used for aura defence, this also causes the user to transmute an aura heart over their natural heart that pumps blood in sync with the heart for greater circulation per pump, decreasing heartrate but increasing circulation
conditions:
natural ones stated in hatsu
sub hatsu: Heart of Love, Trochaic Tetrameter
the user can put an aura heart into an ally to beat with their heart and keep their circulation up, this also allows the ally to have a second chance at life if their organic heart stops
conditions:
whilst using this hatsu the user can only speak in Trochaic Tetrameter, the user can only have 1 heart of love active at once
sub hatsu: Heart of Hate, Iambic Pentameter
the user creates an aura heart in a target's body that pumps blood in an opposite rhythm to the natural heartbeat, brutally crippling their blood circulation and causing asphyxiation in different parts of the body, namely the extremities
conditions:
whilst using this hatsu the user can only speak in Iambic Pentameter, the user can only have 1 heart of hate active at once
They usually read the verse as follows, right?
Georgie | Porgie, | pudding and | pie,
Kissed the | girls and | made them | cry
But 'pudding' has two syllables of the stressed one followed by the unstressed one. So this verse without 'and' sounds better to me. Am I failing to understand the meter?
Georgie | Porgie, | pudding | pie,
Kissed the | girls and | made them | cry
I'm not a huge Macbeth expert though I like the play and I also don't really focus on the idea of blank verse (except as opposed to pure paragraphs). Is it significant that the weird sisters often speak in (incomplete) trochaic tetrameter when Shakespeare is known for his iambic pentameter? Am I the last one to realize this?
After trying to translate a fairly structured poem from English into Terréän, I wanted to make a poetic form that would be more conducive to regular meter. (Since my word order is SOV with no irregular verbs, rhyme is fairly easy to achieve, and inevitable when using the same subject and tense.)
The poem that follows is a dérel-yésath, or "question-response" poem, which consists of a series of related questions, followed by a response. Meter is still a bit iffy, but using the same syntax for nearly all of the questions gives reasonable consistency.
The Terréän rhythm follows a pattern of triplets (ti-ti-ti) and holds (ta__). Some of the verbs have their beginning syllables spoken faster so they fit within the scheme, and other words get extra little pauses to fill space. I was already planning to upload a spoken sample of the language, so I might do this one (once I figure out how I want the last two lines to sound lol).
Sófil Dáloth-Na
Lémë ivél sásith-doló sívis-óro emasó?
Lémë ivél sívin-doló vínil-óro eró?
Lémë éü ána-doló óreü-óro inaró?
Lémë éü hóter-doló téssa kath rosafó?
Lémë adín pínan-doló ódil-óro sipiró?
Lémë adín mínsath-doló hímo-óro giró?
Mírë halád ladánu deth óno tessirá,
Vádë níssë ósul-ára pasfúrin emperóf.
/'so.fil 'dä.loθ nä/
/'le.me i.'vel 'sä.siθ do.'lo 'si.vis 'o.ro e.mä.'so/
/'le.me i.'vel 'si.vin do.'lo 'vin.il 'o.ro e.'ro/
/'le.me 'e.ju 'ä.nä do.'lo 'o.re.ju 'o.ro i.nä.'ro/
/'le.me 'e.ju 'ho.ter do.'lo 'te.sä käθ ro.sä.'fo/
/'le.me ä.'din 'pi.nän do.'lo 'o.dil 'o.ro si.pi.'ro/
/'le.me ä.'din 'min.säθ do.'lo 'hi.mo 'o.ro gi.'ro/
/'mi.re hä.'läd lä.'dän.u deθ 'o.no te.si.'rä/
/'vä.de 'ni.se 'o.sul 'ä.rä pä.'sfur.in em.pe.'rof/
prayer stranger-[belonging-to]
might.MODE from pitcher-whose cup-mine fill(1SN PRES)
might.MODE from plate-whose meal-mine make(1SN PRES)
might.MODE with fire-whose hands-mine warm(1SN PRES)
might.MODE with carpet-whose sand around block(1SN PRES)
might.MODE within blanket-whose body-mine wrap(1SN PRES)
might.MODE within blessing-whose name-mine hear(1SN PRES)
certain.MODE whoever these to me offer(2SN PRES)
will.MODE forever friend-theirs loyal remain(1SN FUT)
Prayer of the Stranger
From whose pitcher shall I fill my cup?
From whose table shall I freely sup?
With whose fire shall I warm my hands?
With whose carpet shall I block the sands?
In whose blanket shall I wrap my frame?
*In w
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**Sources: my own knowledge and Public.WSU.edu
Enjambment:
- the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.
First person is the I/we perspective. Second person is the you perspective. Third person is the he/she/it/they perspective.
Line: one sentence
Couplet: 2 lines put together
Stanza: a group of line usually with a recurring metric use l, separated by a line break
Repetition:
... keep reading on reddit ➡I was learning Christopher Marlowe's poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' which is said to be in iambic tetrameter however not all lines are:
For example in line 3 the short syllable is left out on the 3rd beat "That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields,". There is a short syllable added at the end of line 9 "And I will make thee beds of Roses".
And line 10 is trochaic "And a thousand fragrant posies,".
I was wondering are there terms for these examples where the meter is different in a poem or when theres an extra syllable or syllabls less in a line?
Hey OCPoetry community! My name is Picnic, and I am the newest moderator of our splendid subreddit. To introduce myself, I thought I’d talk about a seemingly forgotten element of poetry—meter!
What is Meter?
In English poetry, meter is one of the most traditional ways of establishing rhythm. It is the particular arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in the line of a poem.
But Picnic, it’s 2021! Who cares about dusty, boring metrical poetry anymore?
I understand. Much to my dismay, we’re no longer in Renaissance England, and contemporary poetry has mostly moved beyond strictly structured sonnets and painstakingly precise prosody. However, there are still critical benefits to understanding the basics of poetic meter. So, let’s get into it!
The Poetic Foot
Since a poem’s meter is determined by its specific arrangement of syllables, it’s important to know the ways in which syllables can be arranged. A foot is a unit of measurement in poetry that includes stressed and unstressed syllables. The four most common poetic feet are iambs, trochees, anapests, and dactyls.
An iamb is a foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable: da DUM. The word “belong” is a natural iamb—its stress falling on the second syllable.
A trochee consists of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed: DUM da. The word “hobbit” is a natural trochee.
An anapest consists of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed: da da DUM. The word “comprehend” is a natural anapest—its primary stress falling on the last syllable.
A dactyl consists of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed: DUM da da. The word “buffalo” is a natural dactyl.
Terminology
If a line is written in iambs, then its meter is said to be iambic; if trochees, then trochaic; if anapests, then anapestic; if dactyls, then dactylic. However, there is also a quantitative aspect to determining meter. The number of times a poetic foot is repeated in a line dictates the length of the meter.
One foot = monometer
Two feet = dimeter
Three feet = trimeter
Four feet = tetrameter
Five feet = pentameter
Six feet = hexameter
Seven feet = heptameter
Eight feet = octameter
Nine feet = please don’t write a line this long
So if a line is comprised of four iambs,
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Happy Teaching Tuesday, everyone!
Today’s lesson is going to be about meter and rhythm in poetry. Are you all as excited as I am?
####Meter: Not Just a Unit of Measurement
Disclaimer: When we talk about meter, we are talking about it in regards to poetry that has a set form and structure. Free verse does not fall into this category. Free verse can have meter, of course, but it sort of just does whatever it wants.
Meter, as we mentioned last week, is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of verse. However, meter doesn’t only happen in poetry — it happens in everything we say and write!
All words have stressed and unstressed syllables in them. Our prose has its own rhythm and cadence, same as our speech. But this is super important in poetry! The pattern of syllables (or, to use our handy dandy vocab, the meter) creates a flow that makes poetry feel how it’s supposed to.
Good poetry has a rising and falling feel to it, as well as a patterned rhythm. Think about rap music. The lyrics have a musical quality about them that would exist even without the background beat! Ideally, non-lyrical poetry should have this same sort of musicality.
The most common meter in English poetry is called accentual-syllabic. This just means that the meter is determined by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables. There can be varying amounts of stresses and unstresses, but the amount of syllables remains the same (or nearly the same).
Look at Edgar Allan Poe’s “To One in Paradise,” for instance (emphasis mine to point out the stressed syllables):
> And all my days are trances, (7)
> And all my nightly dreams (6)
> Are where thy grey eye glances, (7)
> And where thy footstep gleams (6)
Each line here goes between six and seven syllables and alternates between stressed and unstressed accents. This creates a rhythmic pattern that is pleasing to the ear.
But do you find yourself unable to really differentiate between stressed and unstressed syllables? It is difficult at first, I will admit. It’s something that you have to practice and train your ear to notice. However, to help y’all out, I have this wonderful video that really helped me when I was learning, and I hop
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I was very happy to see u/luminousdetails find a solid replacement for the standard Rime of the Frostmaiden. For anybody looking to keep the original poem but wanting it to be a little more spruced up, I reworked it according to trochaic tetrameter catalectic, aka the meter of William Blake's Tyger. I like the effect, not sure whether I'll use this version or Cold Earth in my game. Still have time to decide.
Don't ask why I capitalized the last word in each line, i just started doing it and didn't stop.
Rime of the Frostmaiden
Bow to She who bears the Crown
Shiver all in whispered Dread
Clad in winter’s whitest Gown
Snow enshrouds the blesséd Dead
Fury sheds but frozen Tears
Wolven howling issues Forth
Wind across the wasteland Shears
Breathing blizzards from the North
Ice-kist flowers caught in Bloom
Beauty kept in perfect Place
Summer swiftly locked, Entombed,
Stilling in Her cold Embrace
All the world in winter’s White
Gossamer of sleet and Ice
Set on never-ending Night
Calls unearthly Paradise
Spy her everlasting Rime
Grace in every sparrow’s Fall
Pray that you be trapped in Time
Fill her glacial palace Halls
Sovereign of summers Lost
General of winter’s War
Long live queen of cold and Frost
May She reign Forevermore
Opinion
Can someone help me find some rhythms in this poem. I know iambic tetrameter and trochaic tetrameter are both in this poem, but can someone give me and example of each in these lines:
There she weaves by night and day A magic web with colors gay. She has heard a whisper say, A curse is on her if she stay. To look down to Camelot. She knows not what the curse may be, And so she weaveth steadily, And little other care hath she, The lady do shalott
And moving through a mirror clear That hangs before her all year, Shadows of the world appear. There she sees the highway near Winding down to Camelot: There the river eddy whirls, And there the surly village-churls, And the red cloaks of market girls, Pass onward from Shalott.
I figured out that the last line is iambic trimeter, but I would really appreciate a response on others; I’m down bad rn :(
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Pilot on me!!
How would you describe the rhythm of, for example, Gorey's "Gashlycrumb Tinies":
A is for Amy who fell down the stairs
B is for Basil assaulted by bears
These scan as follows:
A is for / Amy who / fell down the / stairs
I've seen it described as dactylic trimeter followed by an additional stressed syllable, but that seems pretty awkward. Is there a better way to describe that final shortened foot?
This is also an issue in trochaic rhythms. For example, how would you describe Auden's "In Memory of W.B. Yeats":
Earth, receive an honoured guest;
William Yeats is laid to rest;
Seems silly to describe it as trochaic trimeter followed by an extra stressed syllable. It's clearly tetrameter with a shortened final foot. But don't we have a more elegant term for this and for the Gorey example?
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
Has anyone else noticed that during Felurian's story of how Jax stole the moon that she is constantly rhyming with herself?
> most fae are sly and subtle folk who step as soft as chimney smoke
>while she is full you may still laugh, but know there is a darker half
Actually, the whole chapter is full of rhyming.
Edit: The Chapter is "The Ever-Moving Moon" in The Wise Man's Fear
I won't be doing that today!
You take away their little brooms
There hasn't been a post all year!
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
It’s pronounced “Noel.”
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
Bob
Just to clarify, 12345678
Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...
Notices there's only 2;
Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."
I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.
I was just sitting there doing nothing.
So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."
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Here are some Terms
(Sorry for possible bad formatting in this section)
Enjambment:
- the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.
First person is the I/we perspective. Second person is the you perspective. Third person is the he/she/it/they perspective.
Line: one sentence
Couplet: 2 lines put together
Stanza: a group of line usually with a recurring metric use l, separated by a line break
Repetition:
- repeating something multiple times
Poetry Types:
- Free Style - a poem with no specific metric use in mind when creating it. Could be all of the place. Has no guidelines.
- Haiku - 5/7/5 syllable pattern or a more uncommon 3/5/3 syllable pattern.
Alliteration: The repetition of identical consonant sounds, most often the sounds beginning words, in close proximity. Examp
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" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
