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22 February 2005: I have not yet begun to add to the mathemaku-in-progress I posted in yesterday's entry. It now look like I won't have time to work on them until the weekend. In the meantime, I've learned a new poetics term, "ictus." That is what the accented syllable in a metric foot is called. Jargon? Maybe so, but finding such a term in a field one is deeply involved in can really make one feel good. Not that meter has been an important field for me, but it's becoming one. Actually, everything to do with words and parts of words is of central importance to me.
Those of us discussing meter at New-Poetry, by the way, have not been able to come up with a parallel term for an unaccented syllable in a foot. Naturally, I jumped in with a suggested term. It was "nyllable"--from "nil" and "syllable." I think it quite good--almost as good as my "rim-rhyme" for the Wilfred Owen sort of rhyme, in fact.
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