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Lakshmi
Jun 30, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'QUALITATIVE METER'
When studying English poetry, repeated mention of terminologies such as, stressed syllable and unstressed syllable are hard to miss, and...
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Lakshmi
Jun 23, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'ANAPEST'
Anapest is antidactylus because it is the reverse of dactyl. What is dactyl? Refer to O's earlier commentary on dactyl, or let us simply...
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Arun Somasekharan
Jun 22, 20214 min read
Speculative Fiction 'A MELANCHOLY IN QUANTUM FOAM'
PART II “Yes, that is correct indeed,” she nodded slowly in agreement. She had not thought of it that way. This was what made discussions...
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Lakshmi
Jun 9, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'PYRRHUS'
Like an iamb, a trochee, and a spondee, a pyrrhus, too, is a type of foot in a metrical feet. While a spondee is a pair of stressed...
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Arun Somashekharan
May 25, 20216 min read
Speculative Fiction 'JACK AND JILL: An Existential Problem'
PART III Jack laughed. "No, not someone's brain. A Boltzmann Brain. And I assure you I did not crack open Boltzmann's brain and steal it....
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Lakshmi
May 20, 20212 min read
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'LEIGH HUNT'
The glad demeanour and mischievous tones in Hunt's most shared and well known poems must come from the cheerful, sensitive and perceptive...
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Lakshmi
May 19, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'TROCHEE'
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. (IV.i.10-11) Remember these lines and the three witch sisters in...
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Lakshmi
Apr 15, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'BLANK VERSE'
We will start with verse-types in the English language first, only because the content generated, for the moment by 'O', is mainly in...
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