Ignite
Originally Princess Binky Lemontwist.
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Nothing happened.
She called out for help. For a voice. For a friend. For a sign. Something to tell her not to die. She screamed and begged and pleaded and bargained.
The breeze brought her a letter, floated down to her feet as echoing angry footsteps stomped out of my soul's doorway.
"Dear Lily,
Find your own reason to ignite.
Gasoline will come later. From someone more accustomed to braving heat.
Love,
Tradewinds"
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Mighty-Joe Young LOA
I loved the desperation in the spondaic verse.
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Fantasist
Thank you, Joe, for completely opening my mind to the concept of prosody by using "spondaic". A word I have never seen before. I just went on a complete Wikipedia binge trying to figure that all out so I could analyze my own poetry and see if it really is written in spondee.
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Mighty-Joe Young LOA
Remember itads
I=iambic unstressed then stressed
T=trochaic stressed then unstressed
A=anapestic un un then stressed (triplets)
D=dactic stress stress then un
S=spondaic everyone long or stressed shows urgency or desperation. I can tell you are proficient at these even if you did not know their names.lol
- #1642 Posted 8 years ago
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