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2016-06-27 23:52:38 Post No. 8214312
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2016-06-27 23:52:38
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How much importance do you lend the study of poetic meter?
I am in two minds: For sculpting a tone or particular rhythm you deem pertinent to what's being said it is probably important to be knowledgeable on the subject however if you are just studying a poem deep knowledge of prosody provides little more than the ability to lend articulation to the general feeling of what a poem or otherwise is impressing on you and while this is useful I see it as providing few points that are interesting or convincing enough to elicit more than a 'if you say so'.
I have made at least one diverting find while practicing, it was when I was looking at the meter of some hip hop.
'When I was 12, I went to hell for snuffing Jesus'
x u / u x / x u / u x / u x / u x / x
This beat, the hyperbeat, is the 13th beat like Judas was the 13th man to sit at the last supper and like a hyperbeat he is the odd one out. I can hear it now: if you say so.