{"id":135,"date":"2004-12-07T09:41:25","date_gmt":"2004-12-07T13:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=135"},"modified":"2004-12-07T09:41:25","modified_gmt":"2004-12-07T13:41:25","slug":"sevens-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/sevens-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Sevens Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/index.php?p=130#comments\">Patrick mentions is a comment below<\/a> about the powers of 1, 3 and 7 &#8212; and so 13, 37, and 137. Sevens definitely rule as there are so many rules of seven. In poetry, I use the Welsh seven syllable line of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/history\/timelines\/wales\/literary.shtml\">Dafydd ap Gwilym (14th century)<\/a> as a basic building block. The idea is that the odd syllable count adds drama in that you never quite get a series of iambs going unless you emjamb to get there. If you do &#8212; you being the poet, but the reader is of course taken on the same ride &#8212; your rhyme hits in ways that break the Frankenstein tendencies of the iamb to modern ears while still keeping the expectations alive and occassionally even fulfilled.<br \/>\nTwo other poems I&#8217;ve built this way are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/poetry\/2782993p-2578856c.html\">&#8220;Dividing Waters&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetsagainstthewar.org\/displaypoem.asp?AuthorID=12760#453072829\">&#8220;Lent 2003&#8221;<\/a>. The last was written for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetsagainstthewar.org\/\">the Poets Against the War<\/a> and is not build on seven lines and seven verses as <a href=\"ttp:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/birdsandfishes.html\">&#8220;Birds and Fishes&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/poetry\/2782993p-2578856c.html\">&#8220;Dividing Waters&#8221;<\/a> are. &#8220;Birds&#8221; and &#8220;Waters&#8221; have other brothers in their set which I will make available later (or after they are publishing or abandoned).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick mentions is a comment below about the powers of 1, 3 and 7 &#8212; and so 13, 37, and 137. Sevens definitely rule as there are so many rules of seven. In poetry, I use the Welsh seven syllable line of Dafydd ap Gwilym (14th century) as a basic building block. The idea is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}