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Re: Off topic: New Year's frivolity
- Subject: Re: Off topic: New Year's frivolity
- From: cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)
- Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 23:57:33 -0500
Reply to note from Patricia M Godfrey Sun, 2
Jan 2005 18:19:09 -0500
Patricia:
Do you mean that the paragraph itself scans?
> The measure of our English speech is such
> that anyone with very little care
> ...
> a line, some feet, or half a dozen more
> of this the meter native of our tongue.
> A further question is what the name of that kind of thing is.
Off-hand (or foot), I'd call it exemplification.
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Carl Distefano
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