Talk:Amphibrach

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I've been wondering about this:

Aren't limericks really constructed of three dactylic feet(loud soft soft), the last one being a catlectic (unfinished)?

So, instead of:

"There was a | young lady | of Wantage"

you would get:

"There |was a young| La dy of | wan tage"

Looking at musical notation, this would make a lot more sense. The musical 'one' is really on the strong beats. So the word "there" really is a type of up-beat, like you get at the beginning of a lot of music, both classical and popular.

The Leonard Cohen song would then be:

"It's |four in the |morning, the |end of De |cember, I'm

writing you |now just to |see if you're |better. New

York is (pause) |cold, but I |like where I'm | living. There's

music on | Clinton Street |all through the |evening."

This, in any case, better reflects the 3/4 time the music of the song is written in.

Just a thought.