Momof3littles Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 (edited) Can you please help me with a question? I'm looking at the Battle Dwarves poem by MCT on page 103. He says it is in dactylic tetrameter. I see 8 syllables per line. I thought a line of dactylic tetrameter would have 12 syllables per line? I need to be able to explain the dactylic tetrameter in the poem, and I'm a bit stumped myself. Can anyone help me out? I must be missing something. I thought I had somewhat of a handle on meter, but now I'm totally confused. If you can help me out, I'd be really grateful! Ex of first line: Down the mountain dwarves came tramping, eta: is it just an example of modifying the meter so that isn't a perfect example of dactylic tetrameter? Maybe the first two feet in each line are dactylic? Gah! I'm getting myself very confused. Edited August 3, 2012 by Momof3littles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momof3littles Posted August 3, 2012 Author Share Posted August 3, 2012 I finally registered for the forums at Royal Fireworks Press. I was able to find an old post that referenced the poem I asked about in the post above. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes, it is trochaic tetrameter. Absolutely. I actually thought that we had corrected that long ago, so I am glad that you noticed it. I will forward this to Tom at Royal Fireworks to be corrected or checked in the very next revision of Music. Best, mct ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I just thought I'd update in case anyone searches here for info on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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