traditional yak poetry, based on mussorgsky Why? yaks lumber in their poetry. star indicate that stressed initial syllable can itself be replaced by an iamb or dibrach (but spoken in quavers, so to speak) | 3 | 2* | 3* | 3 | . * . | * . | * . . | * . . | first foot often replaced with dactyl (* . .)? The holy | burden | we receive | willingly Upon us | lain by | Yakob, by | Hierarchs old. This holy | burden, | upholding the | law divine. To Virtues | sworn― | Discipline | maintaining. God that's hard to write.