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Well, I suppose, but it is rather crushing to know that my first elegiac couplet started with a spondee in both lines.

Thank you Annis; you should expect a lot of that on the trochaic tetrameter catalectic with scazon.

I think I might have to return to this forum for another attempt at another two lines.

[size=0]If only there were a masculine or feminine iambic or pyrrhic word.[/size]

TIBI GRATIAS AGO ALBEDIASPASON

whiteoctave wrote:The more rules the better, W.!

κοῦραι μνημοσύνης ἐπέων ἀγαθῶν τιθέασι    οὐδὲ νόμους ὀλίγους οὐδὲ μάτην πολέας.

A year to the very day! I have just begun composing at a rate of a couplet per day - not that all I do in a day is a couplet but I feel drained after one.

Episcopus wrote:A year to the very day! I have just begun composing at a rate of a couplet per day - not that all I do in a day is a couplet but I feel drained after one.

I must see this!