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Re: [ANN] XML Limerick Competition

• To: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Subject: Re: [ANN] XML Limerick Competition
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 10:55:30 -0700
• Cc: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>, Jasen Hoglund <jhoglund@l...>, "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>, Michael Kay <michael.h.kay@n...>
• In-reply-to: Message from Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...> of "Sat, 12 Jan 2002 10:39:07 MST." <200201121739.g0CHd7U14234@l...>
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Not sure why EXMH is not wrapping my lines...

> For one thing, dactylic trimeter is an abomination in English (worse than
> heroic couplets, which have the same fundamental flaw).

Good Lord, I've been out of poetics too long.

s/dactylic/anapaestic/
s/heroic couplets/alexandrine/

I suppose I could punish myself by spending an hour readong Tennyson or Whitman, but even I don't deserve that.  The Latest SOAP WDs will have to do...  ;-)


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