ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

Thanks for breaking that down Marty otherwise I would never have seen that 'internal' rhyme

G'day

You'll find this one liner in Chapter 7 in James Fenton's ' an introduction to english poetry' note the title of the publication is in lower case.

I'll get down to section in question.

Para 3

The longer the words in a pentameter, the fewer opportunities for making one of these stresses. On could imagine an iambic pentameter consting of one word.

Deuterohermeneuticality

The next para he says: the one natural conversational stress ( one would lean on the first syllable). Which is consistent with IP.

1 unstressed, 1 stressed syllable.

So I suppose

Deu ter/oh erm/en eut/i cal/it y

I know I'm off on a tangent.

On the same subject. Neville's raised an interesting topic with his poetic one liner.

So I must take my hat off to Neville for his adroitness in the production of his poem

Off on a different direction I've seen expressive one line poetry.

eg; ? "..." & ? (...) !

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John







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Matt did one of those, John

G'day Neville.

Yes, I've seen a few here and there.

Though I wouldn't class it as poetry.

Same as the Fenton example. Put Iambic Pentameter into one word and the pentameter loses rhythm.


John