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iamb-plus-trochee anagram
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ОРХИДЕЯ + БОЙ + ШАР + АДАМ = ЯМБ + ХОРЕЙ + ШАРАДОИД + A
орхидея - orchid
бой - combat
шар - globe
Адам - Adam
ямб - iamb
хорей - trochee
шарадоид - "charadoid" (a charade-like puzzle)
"an iamb from a trochee he could not -
no matter how we strove - distinguish
dispraised Homer, Theocritus,
but read, in compensation, Adam Smith" (EO, One:VII:3-6)
Alexey Sklyarenko
p. s. The last line of my previous post should read: "he believed that poets who wished to convince should use the anapaest (p. 221 of the Panthers edition)".
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орхидея - orchid
бой - combat
шар - globe
Адам - Adam
ямб - iamb
хорей - trochee
шарадоид - "charadoid" (a charade-like puzzle)
"an iamb from a trochee he could not -
no matter how we strove - distinguish
dispraised Homer, Theocritus,
but read, in compensation, Adam Smith" (EO, One:VII:3-6)
Alexey Sklyarenko
p. s. The last line of my previous post should read: "he believed that poets who wished to convince should use the anapaest (p. 221 of the Panthers edition)".
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