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From Tlaloc's site: Everything you need to know about sprung rhythm can be explained in this simple rule. Read it ALOUD, in your head. There is only one way that it can be intoned that will feel right."(c) 2001 Alex Reineck
..... and you've gotta use the old UK way of saying falcon, rather like fall-con
The Windhover
To Christ our Lord
I caught this morning morning's minion, king-
dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dá·®-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady áir, & stríding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,
As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl & gliding
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird, -- the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!
Brute beauty & valour & act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, o my chevalier!
No wonder of it: shéer plod makes plough down síllion
Shine, & blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gáll themsélves, & gásh vermílion.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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