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]
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re: can't we do something else? elegiacs.
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