Home

Footnote: Syllabics For Narratives

Try, of course, for a

line of ten syllables; but

eleven will work

as a second choice; nine, if

only the other two fail.

 

Kyakuchuu

 

[jlc]

Author's Notes/Comments: 

This, of course, is a perceived pattern, and subject to other perceptions that might disagree.  Some scholars have examined, for example, the verse pattern described by T. S. Eliot for its application in his four "drawing room" plays, and have found either exceptions (if they are describing it kindly) or failures (if they are not).  

View seryddwr's Full Portfolio
  • Login to post comments
  • 209 reads

last updated 24 November 2017 - 5:22pm
©24 November 2017 - 5:20pm — Seryddwr