Whispering of Wings
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Phil,I think this works very well, apart from the last line. I may be wrong, but I think you want 'pray' to mean 'I pray' -but I think what it means is 'pray (you) ie please.The only way this could...
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Whether to capitalize or not rather complicated. Here's a nice essay from a fellow who does:www.public.asu.edu/~aarios/resourcebank/capitalizing/
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Maz:I think your suggestion about the capitalization is a good one; I see how it could make the one line clearer.Monsieur:Thanks for the reference. Interesting reading and he makes a good case. I was...
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Phil,I had exactly the same experience as you. My main academic grounding was not in modern verse, and when I first logged on to the Net about 3 years ago, I usually used the old-style capitalisation...
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"The old style suits verse where end-stopped lines are the norm, but the instinctive pause that a capitalised word causes me often trips up my reading when enjambment is used."So you mean in reading...
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One doesn't exactly pause on the enjambments, but one doesn't exactly not pause either. I think that the line endings, even enjambed ones, tend to register in some way on the metrically educated...
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oops...yes i sometimes channel that valiant anti-fascist...in any case...Right -- capital letters starting a line have little to do with it. Enjambment is all over the place -- not a modern invention...
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Hi,maybe the use of capitalisation is particularly useful in blank verse to signal its poetic form in the absence of a rhyme scheme.Personally my experience is similar to others here, the more sonnets...
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Hi, Alan:Actually, the word I'd wanted to use was "funeral" but couldn't figure out how to get around that extra syllable and so settled for "mourning." It bothers me a bit, too, as would "mournful,"...
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Phil. The strange thing is that sometimes metrical consididerations can dictate a word that may be better than our initial choice. Personally, I think mourning (the morning echo) has more impact than...
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