Talk:79: Iambic Pentameter - Revision history

42.book.addict at 04:11, 18 September 2025

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172.68.205.179 at 20:02, 18 April 2025

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172.70.58.5 at 19:57, 18 April 2025

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Firestar233 at 19:05, 18 April 2025

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172.70.160.182 at 15:56, 18 April 2025

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Yorkshire Pudding at 12:33, 18 April 2025

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172.71.242.206 at 09:09, 2 September 2023

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Flexximilian at 23:49, 1 September 2023

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Flexximilian: Added a quippy poem with a halfway-serious question in the end.

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Added a quippy poem with a halfway-serious question in the end.

172.69.59.21 at 19:16, 3 June 2023

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 There is a [[explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Proposals#Merge_Cueball_.26_Rob|community portal discussion]] of what to call Cueball and what to do in case with more than one Cueball. I have added this comic to the new Category:Multiple Cueballs. Since Randall is the one with the hobby and also the one that Cueball represents I have kept Cueball in this explanation and transcript. But made a note of it. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 13:58, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
 If you unstress both "of" and "course," the title text also kind of works with iambic meter. [[User:Aronurr|Aronurr]] ([[User talk:Aronurr|talk]]) 23:25, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
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 :Closest I can do is to uncontract things and split some syllable-and-a-half words awkwardly:
 :"Of course / you do / not want / to lim/it your//self to / the stri/ct for/ms of / the met//er. That / could get / pretty / diffi / cult (?) ." - 5, 5 and 4.5, but with truly awful transitions in places.
-:Or maybe it works better in your (or Randall's) accent, but I just think it's supposed to be self-demonstrating as to how some things ''aren't'' pentameterable... [[Special:Contributions/172.70.58.5|172.70.58.5]] 19:57, 18 April 2025 (UTC) -- PS, your signature sort of 'runs on' from your sentence. Might help if you remember to add a "." to the end of your sentences, might also help if you have it say something like <code><nowiki> -- [[User:Firestar233|guess who]]</nowiki></code> at the start of your signature just to make the link more obvious not part of the 'message'.
+:Or maybe it works better in your (or Randall's) accent, but I just think it's supposed to be self-demonstrating as to how some things ''aren't'' pentameterable...

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 There is a [[explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Proposals#Merge_Cueball_.26_Rob|community portal discussion]] of what to call Cueball and what to do in case with more than one Cueball. I have added this comic to the new Category:Multiple Cueballs. Since Randall is the one with the hobby and also the one that Cueball represents I have kept Cueball in this explanation and transcript. But made a note of it. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 13:58, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
 If you unstress both "of" and "course," the title text also kind of works with iambic meter. [[User:Aronurr|Aronurr]] ([[User talk:Aronurr|talk]]) 23:25, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
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 :Closest I can do is to uncontract things and split some syllable-and-a-half words awkwardly:
 :"Of course / you do / not want / to lim/it your//self to / the stri/ct for/ms of / the met//er. That / could get / pretty / diffi / cult (?) ." - 5, 5 and 4.5, but with truly awful transitions in places.
-:Or maybe it works better in your (or Randall's) accent, but I just think it's supposed to be self-demonstrating as to how some things ''aren't'' pentameterable... [[Special:Contributions/172.70.58.5|172.70.58.5]] 19:57, 18 April 2025 (UTC)
+:Or maybe it works better in your (or Randall's) accent, but I just think it's supposed to be self-demonstrating as to how some things ''aren't'' pentameterable... [[Special:Contributions/172.70.58.5|172.70.58.5]] 19:57, 18 April 2025 (UTC) -- PS, your signature sort of 'runs on' from your sentence. Might help if you remember to add a "." to the end of your sentences, might also help if you have it say something like <code><nowiki> -- [[User:Firestar233|guess who]]</nowiki></code> at the start of your signature just to make the link more obvious not part of the 'message'.

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	The title text is also in iambic pentameter [[User:Firestar233\|guess who]] ([[User talk:Firestar233\|if you desire conversing]] \| [[Special:Contributions/Firestar233\|what i have done]]) 19:05, 18 April 2025 (UTC)		The title text is also in iambic pentameter [[User:Firestar233\|guess who]] ([[User talk:Firestar233\|if you desire conversing]] \| [[Special:Contributions/Firestar233\|what i have done]]) 19:05, 18 April 2025 (UTC)
		+	:As I read it, it obeys its own conclusion by ''not quite'' doing so. Using "/" between feet and "//" between (poly)meters:
		+	:"Of course, / you don't / wanna / limit / yourself // to the / strict forms / of the / meter. / That could // get pre/tty diff/icult."
		+	:Five Iambs (neatly, though assuming "wanNA" is no different from "want TO"), five more Iambs (or four and one from the next, slightly awkward either way), then three (or four, if the last was four, but ''very'' awkward either way. I can't work out how to get it to work better.
		+	:Closest I can do is to uncontract things and split some syllable-and-a-half words awkwardly:
		+	:"Of course / you do / not want / to lim/it your//self to / the stri/ct for/ms of / the met//er. That / could get / pretty / diffi / cult (?) ." - 5, 5 and 4.5, but with truly awful transitions in places.
		+	:Or maybe it works better in your (or Randall's) accent, but I just think it's supposed to be self-demonstrating as to how some things ''aren't'' pentameterable... [[Special:Contributions/172.70.58.5\|172.70.58.5]] 19:57, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

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	:It might also be archaic British English (at least as far back as Shakespeare, could be Chaucerian), though maybe that's just because it sounds like "eight of the clock" (...ten four, me hearties!), and timekeeping back then wasn't really regularly adhered to except to the (pre-clock, but prior equivalent of) "stroke of the hour" deliniations for most people who even had ''that'' kind of scheduling necessity. I could probably look that up, but it's certainly of a different time and/or place from thyself and myself.		:It might also be archaic British English (at least as far back as Shakespeare, could be Chaucerian), though maybe that's just because it sounds like "eight of the clock" (...ten four, me hearties!), and timekeeping back then wasn't really regularly adhered to except to the (pre-clock, but prior equivalent of) "stroke of the hour" deliniations for most people who even had ''that'' kind of scheduling necessity. I could probably look that up, but it's certainly of a different time and/or place from thyself and myself.
	:Of course, it befits the whole style of the meter, even if not Randall's ''usual'' phrasing in his everyday 'Merkin. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.160.182\|172.70.160.182]] 15:56, 18 April 2025 (UTC)		:Of course, it befits the whole style of the meter, even if not Randall's ''usual'' phrasing in his everyday 'Merkin. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.160.182\|172.70.160.182]] 15:56, 18 April 2025 (UTC)
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		+	The title text is also in iambic pentameter [[User:Firestar233\|guess who]] ([[User talk:Firestar233\|if you desire conversing]] \| [[Special:Contributions/Firestar233\|what i have done]]) 19:05, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

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	What the hell is "ten of six"? [[User:Yorkshire Pudding\|Yorkshire Pudding]] ([[User talk:Yorkshire Pudding\|talk]]) 12:33, 18 April 2025 (UTC)		What the hell is "ten of six"? [[User:Yorkshire Pudding\|Yorkshire Pudding]] ([[User talk:Yorkshire Pudding\|talk]]) 12:33, 18 April 2025 (UTC)
		+	:It's an americanism for "ten ''to'' six", or 5:50(am/pm).
		+	:May be "of" in other places too, I know some European countries use the term that basically translates to "half five" to mean 4:30 (half an hour before five o'clock), rather than 5:30 (five o'clock ''plus'' half an hour) - but I'm not entirely sure if any that do this have the equivalent (or implicitly does, by their grammar rules), and I forget which ones to check. (I'm half remembering that maybe some of the scandiwegian languages do it, not so sure about the romance ones... what little I remember of German makes me think that's not one, and once you start going into the more eastern lands of Europe you get really weird stuff, from my anglophonic persoective, so who knows!)
		+	:It might also be archaic British English (at least as far back as Shakespeare, could be Chaucerian), though maybe that's just because it sounds like "eight of the clock" (...ten four, me hearties!), and timekeeping back then wasn't really regularly adhered to except to the (pre-clock, but prior equivalent of) "stroke of the hour" deliniations for most people who even had ''that'' kind of scheduling necessity. I could probably look that up, but it's certainly of a different time and/or place from thyself and myself.
		+	:Of course, it befits the whole style of the meter, even if not Randall's ''usual'' phrasing in his everyday 'Merkin. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.160.182\|172.70.160.182]] 15:56, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

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	:Of which the listed group or style it's at!		:Of which the listed group or style it's at!
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		+	What the hell is "ten of six"? [[User:Yorkshire Pudding\|Yorkshire Pudding]] ([[User talk:Yorkshire Pudding\|talk]]) 12:33, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

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 and rhymed instead of waging wars unjust,<br/>
 the world would be a better place indeed,<br/>
-thus if you ask me poetry 's a must!
+thus, if you ask me, poetry 's a must!
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	If you unstress both "of" and "course," the title text also kind of works with iambic meter. [[User:Aronurr\|Aronurr]] ([[User talk:Aronurr\|talk]]) 23:25, 21 January 2020 (UTC)		If you unstress both "of" and "course," the title text also kind of works with iambic meter. [[User:Aronurr\|Aronurr]] ([[User talk:Aronurr\|talk]]) 23:25, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
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		+	Ex'''plain''' x'''k'''c'''d''': It's ''''cause''' you're '''dumb.'''