[NicknamedBob]

I came across this while I was trying to figure out what IT was talking about ...

Lightly Stepped a Yellow Star

Lightly stepped a yellow star
To its lofty place.
Loosed the moon her silver hat
From her lustral face.
All of evening softly lit
As an astral hall.
"Father," I observed to Heaven,
"You are punctual."

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

First I looked up the word arses:

arsis (är´sîs) noun
plural arses (-sêz´)
1. a. The short or unaccented part of a metrical foot, especially in quantitative verse. b. The accented or long part of a metrical foot, especially in accentual verse.
2. Music. The upbeat or unaccented part of a measure.
[Middle English, raising of the voice, from Late Latin, raising of the voice, accented part of a metrical foot, from Greek, raising of the foot, marking the upbeat, the unaccented part of a metrical foot, from aeirein, to lift.]

Now, obviously, our learned natural poet IT was talking about such poetry when he wrote this ...

Hiberno-English: -- Rearsessed, rearseigned, rearseured, and rearseembled!

I still have so much to learn! Now I need to figure out what quantitative verse is.

[Soaring Feather]

The Dickinson poem is lovely.

I am sure the images are hers and hers alone, sort of a cryptic verse for her enjoyment.


I don't bother myself with the rules of poetry. I just write. Well, I do try to write correct count haiku.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

QUANTITATIVE VERSE: With rhythm determined by the length (duration) of sound in each syllable, and length being determined by a series of artificial rules in addition to pronunciation in speech. Greek and Latin poetry is quantitative.

We don't really do this in English, I believe,

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I was talking about 'arse' - 'ass' this side of the Atlantic.