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I describe my ongoing lyrics writing projects. Where I get my ideas, how I match my words with other people's music, which little helpers I use...

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repulsion - a note on the meter

I still don't have a title, hence I keep on using "repulsion" as a fill-in. I would like to draw your attention to the meter of the verses:

 

she crawls through a humid dungeon
that no one but her can see
in a dark alcove someone is hiding
she notes that she has scraped her knee

...

 

The meter consists of the number of syllables, but even more of the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables: dooDOOdooDOOdooDOO... That much have I demonstrated on several songs in the past. Here I'd like to point out the endings of the lines:

 

"dungeon", "hiding", "truncheon" - all end with unstressed syllables, whereas "see", "knee", and "glee" are stressed.

 

x X x x X x X x

x X x x X x X

x x x X x X x x X x

x X x x X x x X [a stress lies on "has" in the tune that I have in mind - this line may have to be 'tweaked' once there is a proper tune]

 

When these lyrics are set to music, quite obviously the tune will have to reflect this meter.

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