06/23/2008
An iamb for your thoughts
Reading Timothy Steele's All The Fun's In How You Say A Thing, I'm convinced that what's makes English verse so captivating is not its "naturalness" but rather the near-total disjunction between meter and meaning in English, which occurs because ever since 1066 or so, English meaning has been conveyed more by word order than declension (as in Latin and German) or synthesis/agglutination.
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