Ozy in the zone

[Emeraldshine]

<a href='http://ozyandmillie.org/2006/om20060217.html' target='_blank'>http://ozyandmillie.org/2006/om20060217.html</a>

[Miles E Traysandor]

Hehe <!--emo&:wag:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... ailwag.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tailwag.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[Richard K Niner]

Interesting. <!--emo&:wag:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... ailwag.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tailwag.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[IceDragon]

Pentametrics vs. Mad Haiku Skillz<br><br>One shall stand, one shall fall.

[Muninn]

Ozy, Millie, free yourselves, denounce meter as compulsory to the creation of poetry. Embrace free verse. <!--emo&:lol:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[NHJ BV]

Or embrace morse code.

[Steve the Pocket]

Holy cow. This is reaching Homestar Runner-esque levels of randomness. <span style='font-size:3pt;line-height:100%'>Or Define Cynical forum-esque for that matter.</span><br><br>Funny thing is, they had iambic pentameter jokes too.

[Joe3210]

Skills with a 'z'? <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:ph34r:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /ph34r.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ph34r.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[Antoine Bruce]

<!--QuoteBegin-IceDragon+Feb 17 2006, 05:37 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (IceDragon @ Feb 17 2006, 05:37 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Pentametrics vs. Mad Haiku Skillz<br><br>One shall stand, one shall fall. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Sadly, this will probably be on pay-per-view, and I'm cheap.

[Bocaj Claw]

Looks like Ozy has found his niche.

[Ozymandias]

Has Ozy lost his pentametric stride? <br>At least two lines contain one extra beat... <br>In panels one and two his second phrase <br>has one too many syllables. Dun't they?<br><br>Yet knowing DCS is good with verse, <br>and so perhaps he "errs" with purpose too. <br>Did Shakespeare not add final unstressed beats<br>(which some would call the "Feminine Ending")?<br><br>e.g., to show exactly what I mean:<br>"And, Pentametric decimate your e-"<br>And, once again, I quote from Ozy's speech:<br>"For I will take the crown and leave you sigh-"<br><br><br>A tricky one, but this one thing I know: <br>Todays strip left me feeling all aglow <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--><br><br><br>(Huzzah for sonnets <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->)

[dcsimpson]

<!--QuoteBegin-Ozymandias+Feb 18 2006, 11:10 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Ozymandias @ Feb 18 2006, 11:10 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Yet knowing DCS is good with verse, <br>and so perhaps he "errs" with purpose too. <br>Did Shakespeare not add final unstressed beats<br>(which some would call the "Feminine Ending")? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>As in "I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." Or even "To be or not to be, that is the question."<br><br>I am merely following the Bard, who incidentally shares my birthday. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[Muninn]

I was under the impression that sonnets have an established rhyme scheme Ozymandias.

[Ozymandias]

Traditionally, yes, you're right. There are two main forms of sonnet, the Petrarchan (or Italian, if you must) and the Elizabethan.<br><br>The scheme in the Petrarchan is:<br>A<br>B<br>B<br>A<br>A<br>B<br>B<br>A<br><br>C<br>D<br>C<br>D<br>C<br>D<br><br>or<br><br>A<br>B<br>B<br>A<br>A<br>B<br>B<br>A<br>C<br>D<br>E<br>C<br>D<br>E<br><br>whilst the Elizabethan, you will find, is often:<br><br>A<br>B<br>A<br>B<br>C<br>D<br>C<br>D<br>E<br>F<br>E<br>F<br>G<br>G<br><br>As you can see, the forms naturally tend towards three quatrains and a summary couplet at the end, although often it is also possible to split them up into a sestet and an octave. This helps encapsulate sense and thoughts, which is typical of the stricter form of the sonnet.<br><br>But these are advisory, and not rules. Just as my post lacks the octave/sestet split, so it lacks the rhyme. But it does have the 14 lines of iambic pentameter, which, I believe, is all that is needed to qualify its being a sonnet <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[IceDragon]

<!--QuoteBegin-dcsimpson+Feb 18 2006, 06:42 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (dcsimpson @ Feb 18 2006, 06:42 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <!--QuoteBegin-Ozymandias+Feb 18 2006, 11:10 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Ozymandias @ Feb 18 2006, 11:10 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Yet knowing DCS is good with verse, <br>and so perhaps he "errs" with purpose too. <br>Did Shakespeare not add final unstressed beats<br>(which some would call the "Feminine Ending")? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>As in "I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." Or even "To be or not to be, that is the question."<br><br>I am merely following the Bard, who incidentally shares my birthday. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> All I remember wabout that is my AP literature teacher saying that sometimes the stresses were moved to make the meter work, his example was "...Romeo is bani<i>shed</i>. People gave him breaks, because meter is tough to do.<br><br>Still waiting for some Dactylic Hexameter slams(watch Llewellyn be good at those).