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Re: Off topic: New Year's frivolity



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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